Whither Australian Conservatives?

Wither Australian Conservatives?

We've come a long, long way together
Through the hard times and the good
I have to celebrate you, baby
I have to praise you like I should

—Take Yo' Praise, Camille Yarbrough

I listened to a podcast the other day which talked about the way in which the US Supreme Court is influencing US politics, how the Conservative Justices are rewriting and rolling back a hundred years of painfully won progressive reform, from abortion to affirmative action.

Like they have an alphabetical list they are ticking off.

On the podcast, journalist Susan B. Glasser pointed out that what is happening there is “not a coincidence. It is [part of] a deliberate strategy that began 40 years ago, but there are a number of players and there's a tonne of secret money. And it has brought us to this point.”

Another journalist, Jane Meyer, said of the members of the Court that “it is a group of people who are there because of a conservative political campaign over the course of decades.” She said that “an earlier generation …