With Andrew Hastie out of the way, Angus Taylor has decisions to make. Leadership struggles are always messy but the optics of this one are worse than most.
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With a final reshuffle of the shadow ministry put off for another week, Ley has left the door for political reunification firmly open.
The times don’t suit the Liberals, and the Liberals don’t have top people to suit the times. Worse for them, there is no sign of either of those things changing.
The Liberal senator says ‘social media influencers’ have falsely ‘whipped up a frenzy’ of misinformation about new hate speech laws limiting freedom of speech.
A stand-off between leadership hopefuls Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor delays the inevitable and prolongs the Liberals’ pain.
The Liberal-National Coalition is over for the second time in less than 12 months, this time over hate crimes legislation.
The Coalition is on the brink of collapse with all the Nationals’ shadow cabinet members saying they will resign in solidarity with the three Nationals defectors.
The Nationals have broken with their Coalition partners, voting against the government’s hate speech legislation despite the Liberals agreeing to it.
It’s near-universally agreed that opposition policy development under Peter Dutton was too thin and too late. Are the Liberals now being rushed prematurely?
The South Australian Liberal senator says he’s ‘dubious’ about being able to sell the Coalition’s new policy to voters – describing it as ‘carefree with emissions’.
Despite the Coalition’s decision reversal on net zero, the momentum on the clean energy transition is unstoppable.
This week the Liberals have scraped their commitment to net-zero in an effort to keep the Coaltion united.
The Liberals are set to dump net zero with a strong majority of the party room speaking out against the policy.
As Liberals prepare for Wednesday’s party meeting to discuss climate policy, Sussan Ley might be wondering why she stood for leader in the first place.
Most observers believe Ley will be forced out by her party – the only issue now is how long it will take.
Whether the US ambassador should resign is the latest point of dispute - not to mention a total over-reaction.
The former Liberal prime minister says he wrote a new history book ‘to help contemporary Australians think better of themselves’.
With Labor re-elected with a thumping majority, voters at the conservative end of the Coalition are drifting away, spurred by anxieties about immigration.
Liberal James Paterson has warned his party against a forever ‘ongoing mass public therapy session.’ saying the party has to focus itself on prosecuting Labor.
The former Liberal strategist turned pollster says the Coalition has become ‘catastrophically uncompetitive’ with women and younger voters.
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