One thing the same-sex marriage debate has done, for better or worse, is to highlight the deep differences within Australia’s non-Left thought and government, and within the Liberal party in particular.
It has caused a predictable split in the party which until now, as John Howard emphasised many times, aimed to be the standard-bearer of both the liberal and conservative traditions in Australia.
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