Party (August)

Now that, this August, its balkanisation is in full view, fresh names are offered for Robert Menzies’ inappropriately named Liberal Party. The Off-Shore Party. The Murdoch Stooges. Jaded comrades suggest Capitalist Pig-Dog Party, but that won’t translate to the electorate. The Solution Party is torpedoed by jests about The Double Dissolution Party. The Disillusion Party. Tony Abbott Team has been ditched, but Shirtfront Party is punchy. Precedents include Chipp’s Democrats and One Nation, now PHON, suggestive of phoniness, all policy dictated from Pauline Hanson’s phone. The Selfish Party. The Policy-Free Party. The Millionaires Party. All options are on the table.