At the first-ever Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Australia, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that what enabled the right-leaning Liberal Party of Australia to win the recent federal election is that they were “less ideological” than their left-leaning Australian Labor Party opponents. He added that those on the centre-right of politics are about “pragmatism based on values.”
In addressing the audience of several hundred at Rydges World Square in the heart of Sydney’s CBD on Aug. 9, Abbott encouraged attendees to have conviction in their beliefs, which he said was needed to deal with the challenges facing Australia today—including on cultural, economic, and national security fronts.
