Comment on Can someone explain Australian parties to me?
eureka@aussie.zone 2 weeks agoFunnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it’s the Liberals.
From a historical/polsci perspective, the Liberal Party is a conservative liberalist party, and the Libertarian Party is probably also a conservative liberalist party claiming to be a classical liberalist party (right-libertarian is also appropriate, as opposed to the original meaning of libertarian, which is now called libertarian socialism).
The US discourse using “liberal” to refer to “progressive liberalism” is more the source of confusion than the Liberal Party.