I regard the major challenge for the Liberal Party as the need to create the environment most favourable for enabling all Australians to reap the greatest benefit from change. This kind of positive approach is what Liberalism is all about. They will still be valid in another two hundred years because they are grounded firmly in a respect for the individuality, self- reliance, ingenuity, humanity, and resilience of each man and woman in society. Liberals believe that the driving force of a dynamic society is the diversity and richness of individual personalities.
Individuals generate change.
They constantly have new ideas, a desire to create, innovate, build. They have objectives, too, and their determination, great or small, to fulfil those objectives drives the community forward. Liberalism's commitment to the free ex- pression and free play of diverse views and approaches provides it with a better chance of finding the most imaginative solutions to the complex problems of economic and social change. With its tolerance and encouragement of diversity, Liberalism is without the weakness of those other philosophies which display rigidity and over-simplification in the face of constant and complex demands for change. Less flexible philosophies are so often unable to produce the kinds of creative policies necessary to cope with a dynamic environment.