[Trumpinator]

The leadership of the Liberal Party ( strange name to Americans I know since the Liberal Party is the more conservative party in Australia ), as always been precarious.

Not really. The Australians are using the terms correctly. Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty.

In the USA the terms conservative and liberal were coined over ideas of govt spending. The left wanted to spend "liberally" and the right wanted to spend or expand govt in a "conservative" manner. That is how the terms came to be coined in the USA.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The Australians are using the terms correctly. Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty.

Well, they’re soon going to find out like the word “Democratic” ( as in North Korea’s Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ) and “Affordable” ( as in the Affordable Care Act ), and many other terms, the word will slowly lose its meaning with the election of Carbon Credit supporter Malcolm Turnbull.

[Sam Gamgee]

Exactly. Here in Canada the Liberal party leaders were probably more free market and liberty oriented that their counterparts in the US at the time (pre World War II).

[Redbob]

"Liberal is Latin for freedom as in Liberty."

Oh, so they speak Latin in Australia?
Who knew...