Australia

That Labor has more center-right beliefs (particularly in social policy) and is farther left in industrial/labor policy than the Dems, while the Liberals are not frakkin' nuts, unlike the Republicans.

I've found Australians as a whole are more lowercase-c-conservative, in general (e.g., relationships between the sexes, the significance of public shame, obligations of the individual to the community and so on), except in those areas where they are traditionally lowercase-l-liberal (again, labor policy, the responsibility of the government to the citizen, gay rights, the proper place for religion in society, and generally "live and let live.&quot

Abbot, however, is even more odious than Romney, but less of a liar.