Talk:Liberal Party of Australia

Not right-wing
Stop putting "Centre-right to right-wing" in the infobox. This is the Liberal Party, not the Republican Party. It is centre-right. These edits are clearly just Labor/Greens bias. I have decided not to remove it myself because whenever I fix a typo it gets reverted because of the other edit. Someone else remove it.

This isn't an extremely conservative party. Right-wing makes no sense. May as well put "Centre-left to left-wing" in the Labor Party's infobox given they are centre-left but if we're calling one party extreme we have to call the other one extreme. 37.0.81.236 (talk) 21:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Furthermore, we have consensus a million times that says don't put factions in the infobox. 37.0.81.236 (talk) 21:35, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @37.0.81.236 Reliable sources call it right wing. If you have reliable sources that Labor is far left, go to the Labor article and do that. commemorative (talk) 03:27, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Please refer to the billion other times this has been raised in the talk page archives J2m5 (talk) 03:51, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The term "right-wing" doesn't denote an extreme position. An extreme right position would be "far-right". Reliable sources refer to the Liberal party as "right-wing" and therefore so can we. If you think that is problematic start an RfC about it, but this has been discussed a lot. TarnishedPathtalk 07:28, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * 1) "Right Wing" is not the same as the "Far Right" as mentioned by TarnishedPath
 * 2) The reason why ALP isn't listed as "centre-left" to "left-wing" is because party is not socially "Broad-church" and only a bit economically broad chuch so they don't allow left wing populist in the party.
 * 3) The right-wing populist faction National Right has made significant influence in their policy making
 * 4) Conservative Party of Canada and UK is listed as "centre-right" to "right-wing" too and they both too have their right-wing populist factions having significant influence. 49.185.197.233 (talk) 04:12, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Plenty of commentators have suggested that the Liberal Party now is more right wing than it has ever been. HiLo48 (talk) 05:42, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Peter Dutton is the furthest right politician in a major position for decades. The liberals are right-wing, as under their current leadership they oppose same-sex marriage. 120.21.77.25 (talk) 10:09, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

The Liberals are now Right-wing
Currently, the Liberals are ruled under a supermajority by their hard right factions, their leader, Peter Dutton, is the furthest right in decades, and he is arguably homophobic (opinion, but he rejects same-sex marriage). The party has also been reviewed by politicalcompass.org, one of the most credible websites for politics in this day and age. They put the Liberals at Far-Right authoritarian, but currently Australian politics are skewed to the left of the U.S.A and other Western nations, so it is best to call it Right-wing. 120.21.77.25 (talk) 10:12, 9 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Just quickly chiming in to say politicalcompass.org is in no way reliable and has had some insane takes on the positioning of political parties over the years. — Czello (music) 10:35, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * See prev talk entries on this very topic J2m5 (talk) 10:39, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I don't think Liberal is Far-Right, they aren't fascist nor racist. However, Dutton and the National Right have become the majority within the party, and the other factions are now very weak in comparison. I would be bias if it was allowed (talk) 12:19, 9 May 2024 (UTC) sock strike

Is nobody going to address the out of place chart in the middle of the page
Just below the info box a chart awkwardly separating two paragraphs has remained for quite a while now, unless i missed it, nobody seems to have brought up this glaring eyesore, so i figured i would

What should be done with it? i admit its a nice bit of information and explains things well, but surely there is a better way to go about it Auspol4 (talk) 14:08, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
 * I removed it recently and it was immediately re-added. It's not only out of place having a giant diagram there, the chart itself is poorly laid out and contains multiple errors. Go ahead and remove it again. ITBF (talk) 14:56, 6 June 2024 (UTC)