[naturalman1975]

Remember, in Australia, the Liberal Party is the major conservative party. It generally works in coalition with the second major conservative party (the Nationals, formerly known as the Country Party, and in some parts of the country, they have merged as either the Country Liberal or Liberal National Party), and the traditional colour associated with the Liberals here is blue.

Four of Australia six states already have conservative governments (New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia, and Queensland) as does one of the two self-governing territories (the Northern Territory). Elections are being held in the other two states, South Australia, and Tasmania, tomorrow, and polls predict the conservatives will take both those states as well. This will leave the Australian Capital Territory (somewhat analogous to America's District of Columbia - an area that surrounds the national Capital) as the sole Labor held area of Australia. As a territory its powers of self government are less than those of a state, and it's fairly small anyway - we wouldn't mind it being conservative, but the fact it isn't won't worry us too much if we have the rest of the country.

The Liberals are a broad church - while sections of it are truly and wholeheartedly conservative, there's also a moderate wing, so the whole country going blue doesn't mean quite as much as true conservatives might wish - but even the moderates are much better than having Labor in charge.

[JPX2011]

Excellent. Thank you for the good news from our friends down under. Question: is there a Tea Party/UKIP type movement in Australia that is pushing the Liberal Party into more victories? Or dissatisfaction with policies of the previous administration?

[fieldmarshaldj]

The Orwellian mislabeling of “Red” for the American Republicans didn’t occur until 2000. The Democrats are the “RED” party in America with their Communist agenda. Blue is the true color for Conservatism.

[qam1]

But, but, but my Liberal (Left Wing) friends told me Australians were embarrassed by Tony Abbott’s “Denial” of Global Warming that he was going to lose big

[Zathras]

I visited Aus back in ‘97.
Loved it but you could see the Liberal influence even back then.
Glad to hear things are swinging back the other way.

[JSDude1]

So it’s pretty close to the same politically as here in the USA with the Republicans?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Pamela Geller, 1st International Symposium on Liberty and Islam in Australia, SION and Q Society

[ken5050]

Well...here's something with which to celebrate... Judith Durham & The Seekers: Walzting Matilda

One of the great voices....

[Bigg Red]

Thank you for explaining this.

And good luck!