Abstract
In 2018, the outgoing state president of the WA Liberal Party, Norman Moore, implored the gathered party conference to remain faithful to the commitment to a secular, broad church party. Moore was seeking to draw attention to the increase in evangelical members within the party and the ways in which their presence was changing the factional, ideological, and policy orientation of the WA division. Less than four years later, an internal review of the party's dire performance at the 2021 state election reiterated these concerns, although steps to moderate the influence of religious conservatives at the highest levels of the party have floundered. This chapter explores the ways in which the changing ideological composition of the party is remaking the WA Liberals. The chapter will also analyse the structure and operation of the WA Liberal Party in practice. In doing so, the chapter will also consider similarities and differences with other state and territory divisions of the party and contextualise it within contemporary debates about right-of-centre party representation.