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Peter Dutton after addressing the party faithful and conceding defeat on Saturday night.

The Liberal Party does not need a renovation. It’s a knockdown rebuild job

If we are to rebuild the party, we – its members – must stop listening to our own delusional garbage. The Liberal Party machine is both moribund and dysfunctional.

  • Michael Yabsley

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Smashed Liberals banished to the outer suburbs as Sydney’s political map is redrawn

The Coalition is set to hold fewer than a third of federal seats in NSW.

  • Matt Wade
“A bullet-headed former Queensland cop,” is how Malcolm Turnbull described Dutton in his 2020 memoir. Pictured here in 2017.

Malcolm Turnbull skips the country on election night

The former prime minister won’t have a bar of election night. And we don’t blame him.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull.

Leaving on a jet plane: Turnbull skips the country in time to avoid election night

Malcolm Turnbull isn’t the only former PM who won’t be sprinkling their particular brand of stardust at election night parties.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
James Baillieu and Corrie Perkin.

‘Sorrento is not your town’: Writers festival fallout deepens

A pointy text or two is spicing up this deepening seaside showdown over an event at a Baillieu family mansion.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman

John Howard says the Liberal Party must be a broad church. Does Peter Dutton agree?

Is Peter Dutton a shape-shifting pragmatist or a true conservative?

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Peter Dutton took some leads from the Donald Trump playbook, but it appears to have backfired.

Trump-lite dynamite: Did copying the president’s playbook blow up Dutton’s campaign?

The opposition leader clearly thought he was on a good thing when he looked to the approach of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

  • Tony Wright
Petro Georgiou

Petro Georgiou, the ‘conscience of the Liberal Party’, dies at 77

“He combined the skills of an effective political strategist with deep policy insights and an unwavering commitment to liberal values,” said Josh Frydenberg.

  • Tony Wright

The Liberals have a Malcolm problem. It’s not their first

What is it about prime ministers called Malcolm? A history of the most querulous leaders.

  • Brad Emery
Election campaign. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison visits the Davenport Strikers Soccer Club in the seat of Braddon. The Federal election will be held on Saturday 21st May 2022. Photographed Wednesday 18th May 2022. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 220518 ausvotes22. With MP Gavin Pearce - Liberal MP for Braddon. Photo shows the PM tripping into one of the kids on the field whilst playing soccer with them.

Watch your step: Campaign disasters Albanese and Dutton must not repeat

The number one rule for political leaders on the campaign trail is simple: never take a backward step. You never know what you’ll step into.

  • Tony Wright

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