A new case for small-government conservatism

Tony Abbott's speech at the launch of Jim Allan's edited collection of essays, Making Australia Right: Where To from Here? (Connor Court), received saturation media coverage because Abbott's remarks were reported through the prism of Liberal Party leadership tensions. The immediate result was to inflame the divisions between the progressive and conservative wings of the Centre- Right movement in Australia; many of the former prime minister's parliamentary colleagues lined up to speak out against his alleged disloyalty against the Turnbull government.