After a year of failure, Liberals need to understand that managerialism is terribly uninspiring compared with fighting for individual freedom and responsibility against the progressive left.
Jason South
The federal government’s handling of COVID-19 received mixed reviews from the public. They loved all the lockdowns and border closures, state and national, but they thoughtIn South Australia, the public was on the whole supportive of the state government’s termination of traditional civil liberties. The policies Liberal and Labor governments pursued on COVID-19 were not very different. At the federal level, Labor in opposition called for more spending – but in Victoria I don’t recall the Liberals proposing a dramatically different approach from the Xi Jinping-style policies of Dan Andrews.
The Liberal Party was also the party of nationalism. It unapologetically stood up for the national interest rather than bowing at the altar of multilateralism. It believed in strong defence of the nation and saw the Australian Defence Force as a symbol of the nation’s independence. It also believed in strong alliances, particularly with the United States and Britain.
Looked at from afar – and I spend much of my year in the UK – it seems the Liberal Party’s arguments for government hinge much more on management than values. Liberals argue they would build a road here or there, or a hospital somewhere else, and that is better than the Labor proposal.Of course, good management is important – but it isn’t easy to win the argument that just because somebody is a member of the Liberal Party they are a better manager than a member of the Labor Party.
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