Liberal Party must better reflect the society it seeks to govern
Coming back from the disaster of May 3 will require remaking the party to be more representative. But the Liberals also need to make clear to voters the principles the party stands for.
They say you should never waste a good crisis. The Liberal Party needs to use the existential threat posed by its catastrophic federal election defeat to start a genuine rebuild from the ground up.
The election result exposed a dire lack of support among women, young people, educated professionals, and diverse communities in urban areas. The party founded in 1944 by Robert Menzies – and which has been in government at the federal level for 50 of the 80 years it has existed – must reengage with vast swaths of the nation.
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