Conservative parties are facing a problem: how to appease their socially conservative base and their wealthy backers at the same time The tumble of Tony Abbott and the rise of Malcolm Turnbull has kicked off a civil war on the legal in Australia,which parallels what’s going on in other English-speaking democracies. The most amusing manifestation of this has been the way in which News Corp has been unable to get its ducks in a row on the leadership transition. While The Australian has pragmatically signed up with the recent regime, the company’s tough cases – Andrew Bolt, or Tim Blair and Miranda Devine – are outraged that Abbott,the boots-and-all social conservative, has been replaced by someone who is cosmopolitan, or insufficiently homophobic,not gung-ho enough on refugee policy, and worst of all, and thinks we perhaps could do something about climate change. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com