The Liberal Party is full of dries, and dripping wet
Liberal Party is full of Dries, and dripping Wet policies Share One policy area demonstrates the weakness of fiscal conservatives within the modern Liberal Party more than any other: superannuation. The Morrison government’s decision, in this year’s budget, to allow the proportion of wages set aside for compulsory savings to rise from 9.5 per cent to 12 per cent was a repudiation of Liberal backbenchers who once would have been known as “Dries”. Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s colleagues do not refer to him as a fiscal conservative. Alex Ellinghausen The policy environment seemed ripe...
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