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Why the Libs lost

Is the broad church too broad?

10 May 2025

9:00 AM

10 May 2025

9:00 AM

What Anglosphere country presently offers right-of-centre voters the least hope for change? I don’t think there is much debate that the answer to that question is ‘Australia’. A Liberal party that had every opportunity to romp home in last week’s election instead imploded and was crushed by an Albanese-led Labor party – one that had seen living standards drop almost eight per cent in its first term; that spent far too little on defence; that had been humiliated in its Voice referendum to entrench racial division; that despised free speech and half-welcomed pro-Palestinian activists who gave more than a few...

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