Maiden: Merit in the Liberal Party? Don’t make us laugh
If the Liberals ever want to form government again, they need to fix their John Howard problem and their women problem, writes Samantha Maiden.
If the Liberals ever want to form government again, they need to fix their John Howard problem and their women problem, writes Samantha Maiden.
Local Liberal bigwigs will be told that the party never had a chance of knocking off Zali Steggall in the federal election because Peter Dutton’s nuclear power station policy was a ‘millstone around our neck’.
The Liberals will soon decide who will take over from Peter Dutton who led the party to its worst election defeat, but one name will be missing from the contest.
Did the Liberal Party think hiring the same digital agency that helped propel Scott Morrison to his ‘miracle’ election win would work similar magic?
Peter Dutton has accused Adam Bandt of trying to spin his election loss in a cutting online post declaring his pride at helping defeat the Greens leader.
As the party counts the cost of a failed campaign, the cost of the polling project can be revealed as some strategists push back on criticism insisting Peter Dutton made captain’s calls.
If the Coalition had a path to victory on Saturday it was via loud-mouth drunken uncles the real ‘Quiet Australians’ just told to shut up, writes David Penberthy.
Joe Hildebrand and James Morrow do a deep dive into the election result, and what went wrong for Peter Dutton and what Anthony Albanese needs to do now.
Unseated and ousted as opposition leader, Peter Dutton’s time in parliament is over. But taxpayers are set to keep paying him in retirement.
Peter Dutton’s $280k a year pension has sparked outrage and debate about whether politicians should be entitled to a taxpayer funded pension for the rest of their life. VOTE IN OUR POLL
In a silver lining to his cataclysmic election loss, Peter Dutton is entitled to a taxpayer-funded annual pension of up to $280,000 a year for the rest of his life.
A second party leader has been ousted in Labor’s landslide election victory.
A second party leader has been ousted in Labor’s landslide election victory.
Peter Dutton’s Liberals were not “too right wing”, they were instead too timid, too uncertain, too incoherent, too “Me Too” and too late.
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