Following the delivery of the Liberal Party’s post-election review, the Loughnane-Hume report, at the end of 2022, the former member for Wentworth Dave Sharma wrote:

‘As the movement for Italian unification gathers force, the young Sicilian aristocrat Tancredi tells his uncle, Don Fabrizio, in Lampedusa’s novel, The Leopard: “If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”

The Liberal Party federal executive should keep Tancredi’s advice in mind as it absorbs the post-election review.