I understand that the Australian Liberal Party is more of a banner for the anti-socialist forces of Australian politics to rally behind, rather than a party with a positive, coherent ideological orientation. As John Howard would say, his party is a "broad church" who are heirs to the traditions of both Edmund Burke and John Stuart Mill. But it really does seem these days like it's too broad a church for it's own good. Would it perhaps make more sense if the Turnbulls and the Abbotts had their own separate parties?
I know branch-off parties never enjoyed a lot of success in Australian political history (DLP, Democrats) but the main question of this thread is how do we get the Australian Liberal Party to resemble more closely the Canadian one? By that I mean how do we get it to be more socially and culturally progressive, while being capable of great ideological flexibility on economic matters. I can't for the life of me think of any PODs either before or after the actual formation of the party under Menzies, but the partisan alignments of Australian politics in such a TL by today would be a centrist Liberal Party flanked on the left by Labor, and on the right by a Conservative Party, that has perhaps grew out of a union between right-wing Liberals/UAP and the National Party, uniting its rural base with urban and suburban conservatives.