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We are not conservative, we have never been conservative

Elections aside, how do you feel about a political party whose leaders blatantly lie about their own ideology? To wit, one Alexander Downer today proclaiming

"We are a centre-right government and so it's not surprising that centre-right governments sympathise with other centre-right governments around the world in a very narrow, sentimental sense".

The Australian joined the deceit from their opening line: "It was inevitable the federal government would show support for its American centre-right counterpart in the lead-up to the US elections" - and make no editorial comment on the nature of Downer's claims at all, though they were very happy during the election campaign here to editorialise practically anything from Latham and Labour that passed through their hands. To return to the main issue, how could anyone possibly describe either Howard or Bush as being "centre" or even leading a "centrist" party? It is obvious to even the dullest of wits that neither Australia or America currently enjoys anything but a right-wing government with increasingly authoritarian, extremist views, and for that party to assert it is somehow representative of political middle ground is not only dishonest but deliberately so. One only needs to look at recent pronouncements from the Government here on the direction of Education and Health policy to realise their agenda is far from centerist, far from representative, and certainly mandated by a very conservative agenda and not by the population at large. To be suddenly transforming oneself into a "centre-right" party via the media is ridiculous.

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