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| | Palmer's Oz Politics (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | The general principles espoused by the Liberal Party in its platform include: free enterprise, support for the business community, individual choice, reward for individual effort, federalism, smaller government, defence, the family, and a limited welfare safety net. |
 | | Tiver says that "except for the general principles set down in platitudinous style in its platform, the Liberal Party has no elaborated or logically argued scheme of thought." Hughes argues, "it is hard to decide what the Liberal Party stands for, what its beliefs are and what it will do in any period in office". |
 | | In an attempt to identify Liberal Party beliefs, a number of authors have used key individuals within the Party as motifs or pencil portraits for the different streams of thought within Australian Liberalism. |
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