In Australia:
The National Country Party is conservative.
The Liberal Party is moderately conservative.
Those two parties form the Coalition which forms the current government.
The Labor Party is liberal to socialist. It is the main opposition party.
An Aussie reporter on John Howard:
By god, that John Howard is tough.....
Hand it to the bloke — his are made of brass and clang when he walks.
The polls now show three in five voters want him gone. Yet he doesn’t even blush.
And he turned on his heel to march back to battle. Clank, clank, clank.
We need more John Howards in the (R) party!!!