The political landscape changed in both parties when the rank and file were mass infiltrated by organised DLP style Catholics beginning 1980's and subsequently both embraced integralism, more or less wiping out any remnants of the presbytarian flavour of political leadership upto that point.
Predictably a dominance of Catholics invites in Evangelical/Pentecostal soldiers to balance the bias bearing the cross of Jebus. This was hard for people like Julie Bishop to deal with.