--- title: "Optimism is Power: Australian Liberalism" description: Kellie Sloane joins Angus Taylor, Tim Wilson, Jess Wilson and Anthony Albanese in advancing a more optimistic vision for Australia’s future. image: https://www.centreforoptimism.com/hubfs/AI-Generated%20Media/Images/Optimism%20is%20Power%20on%20Stage%20Screen-1.png --- ###### [Check out Our latest insights on Optimism](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog) [![Centre for Optimism_Logo](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/hubfs/Centre%20for%20Optimism_Logo.svg)](https://www.centreforoptimism.com?hsLang=en) - [Home](https://www.centreforoptimism.com) - [Subscribe](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/subscribe) - [Why Optimism?](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/whyoptimism) - [What is Optimism?](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/whatisoptimism) - [The Optimism Principle](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/theoptimismprinciple) - [Need Optimism?](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/services-and-workshops) - [The Optimism Workshop](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/workshop) - [Victor Perton - That Optimism Man](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/victorperton) - [Magnetic Optimism for Organisations](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/magnetic-optimism-workshops) ![Close Icon (3)](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/hubfs/Close%20Icon%20(3).svg) ![Search (2)](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/hubfs/Search%20(2).svg) ###### [Liberal Party](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/tag/liberal-party) , ###### [Australian Liberalism](https://www.centreforoptimism.com/blog/tag/australian-liberalism) # Optimism is Power: Australian Liberalism Optimism is power. That was the heart of Kellie Sloane’s message at the Liberal Party’s Federal Council. Optimism as leadership, direction and action. “We are not here simply to oppose. We are here to build,” she said. That is exactly the language Australians need to hear from serious political leaders. To offer optimism and hope again. For years, the Centre for Optimism has argued that Australia needs a renewed optimistic national narrative. We need leaders who can face facts clearly and point people towards possibility. So it is good to see Liberal leadership advancing on that front. Kellie Sloane put it plainly: “That is the Liberal tradition at its best. Optimistic. Forward-looking. Practical.” She linked optimism to enterprise, aspiration, reward for effort, infrastructure, productivity and the next generation. That is the right frame. It also sits within a wider Liberal renewal. Angus Taylor set out a vision of “an Australia where we have hope and optimism.” Tim Wilson has put it even more directly: “We will replace Labor’s pessimism with Liberal optimism.” Jess Wilson has said Victoria needs leaders prepared to “lead with conviction, courage and optimism.” This matters because Australia has an optimism gap. Most Australians remain optimistic about their own lives, families and futures, yet many are far less optimistic about the nation’s direction, our institutions and the wider world. That gap will not close if politics becomes a contest in national despair. It will only close when leaders on both sides are willing to say, with conviction, that Australia is a good country and can be even better. Our politics is at its best when it invites Australians to build, create, invest, innovate, contribute and believe that the future can be better than the present. Anthony Albanese has also used optimistic language about Australia’s future. He has said, “I want a country where hope and optimism are the major emotions projected from our national government to the Australian people.” That tells us something important. The contest in Australian politics should not be between optimism and pessimism. It should be between competing optimistic visions of how Australia can become stronger, fairer, freer, more prosperous and more confident. For Liberals, the opportunity is clear. Optimism belongs naturally with enterprise, aspiration, responsibility, family, community, reward for effort and respect for the taxpayer. It belongs with the belief that people, families and businesses, not bureaucracy, are the real source of prosperity. Kellie Sloane’s speech was a welcome sign of Australian Liberal optimism returning to the centre of the argument. Optimistic. Forward-looking. Practical. That is the Liberal tradition at its best. 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