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Wed, 31/01/2007 - 5:40am — alex white

Tony Abbot, the veteran Liberal Party cultural-warrior, has backed the destructive and divisive influence of B.A. Santamaria, the Labor rat who masterminded the rise of the DLP.

Abbot, in launching a collection of Santamaria’s letters, said:

the Catholic-based party that came out of the split, was “alive and well and living inside the Howard Government”.

As former Victorian Premier John Cain noted:

Sectarianism was at its worst in Australia at that time and it took decades for the political system to recover.

Looks like sectarianism, the legacy of the DLP, is alive and well in the Liberal Party.