The structure of Liberal state politics in N.S.W.

© 1962 Katharine Ogilvie HolgateThe liberal party of Australia is a collective of six state divisions, each one a different organisation facing different problems at two and sometimes three levels of government. But the academic stereotype of the liberal Party has been based upon its operation at the federal level, where the party has dominated for over a decade the more politically significant legislature, and where the party makes no apology for oligarchic conrol by its parliamentarians…