Kelly’s heroes | The Spectator Australia

Craig Kelly’s existence poses an existential problem for the Liberal Party. 

It is difficult to work out how far a political ideology has swerved off track until you have something to compare it with. There has to be a tide marker sticking out from the stinking, exposed mud of the receded ideological field. Only then can the Australian public see the true regression of our political class. 

Australians instinctively know that the Liberal Party of 2021 is not the party of Sir Robert Menzies. He was a politician of eloquence, principle, and withering quips who lashed Australia together when it needed to survive grim decades of war. The man was an unapologetic force in a difficult age that resulted in the reshuffling of…