Aren’t the terms ‘Liberal’ and ‘Conservative’ opposite of what they mean here there?...............
“Aren’t the terms ‘Liberal’ and ‘Conservative’ opposite of what they mean here there?...............”
Yes, but those are Aussie terms. Their liberal is more like the classical meaning of the term and therefore more like our conservatives. Their version of our democrats is labor. The filthy turd John Howard was behind the Australian ban. I think the prick is still kicking around. Australia has good guys and bad guys just like us.
The Liberal Party of Australia is the major (moderately-)conservative party. They tend to govern in a very long term coalition with The National Party of Australia who are smaller, and slightly more conservative. In some places, the Liberals and Nationals have formally merged.
Realistically, Australian Federal and state governments are always either Liberal/National Coalition governments, or Australian Labor Party governments - Labor are the left wing socialists. As in the US, we have a host of minor parties (and in Australia some of these are actually somewhat significant) but in practical terms it's a two party system - Liberal/National coalition versus Labor.
The term conservative still has a similar meaning to that in the US, but, yes, if you hear people talking about a Liberal politician in Australia, you're normally talking somebody who is right of centre (although not necessarily by much - and our current Liberal Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is so centrist, he could just as easily be Labor.)