Editing Conservatism (section)

==== Australia ====
{{main|Conservatism in Australia}}
{{Conservatism in Australia}}
The [[Liberal Party of Australia]] adheres to the principles of [[social conservatism]] and [[liberal conservatism]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Dennis Raphael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zjh4lQAbPrYC&pg=PA66 |title=Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences |publisher=Canadian Scholars' Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-55130-412-0 |page=66}}</ref> It is liberal in the sense of economics. Commentators explain: "In America, 'liberal' means left-of-center, and it is a pejorative term when used by conservatives in adversarial political debate. In Australia, of course, the conservatives are in the Liberal Party."<ref>{{cite book |author1=David Mosler |url=https://archive.org/details/americaamericans0000mosl |title=America and Americans in Australia |author2=Robert Catley |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-275-96252-4 |page=[https://archive.org/details/americaamericans0000mosl/page/83 83] |url-access=registration}}</ref> The [[National Right (Liberal Party of Australia)|National Right]] is the most organized and reactionary of the three factions within the party.<ref>{{cite news |last=Massola |first=James |date=March 21, 2021 |title=Who's who in the Liberals' left, right and centre factions? |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/who-s-who-in-the-liberals-left-right-and-centre-factions-20210303-p577gv.html |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]}}</ref>

Political scientist [[James Jupp]] writes that "[the] decline in English influences on Australian reformism and radicalism, and appropriation of the symbols of Empire by conservatives continued under the Liberal Party leadership of Sir [[Robert Menzies]], which lasted until 1966".<ref>{{cite book |author=James Jupp |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n63TaXC5TpEC&pg=PA172 |title=The English in Australia |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-521-54295-1 |page=172 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>

Other conservative parties are the [[National Party of Australia]] (a sister party of the Liberals), [[Family First Party]], [[Democratic Labour Party (Australia, 1980)|Democratic Labor Party]], [[Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party]], [[Australian Conservatives]], and the [[Katter's Australian Party]].

The largest party in the country is the [[Australian Labor Party]], and its dominant faction is [[Labor Right]], a [[socially conservative]] element. Australia undertook significant economic reform under the Labor Party in the mid-1980s. Consequently, issues like protectionism, welfare reform, privatization, and deregulation are no longer debated in the political space as they are in Europe or North America.