The Sauce: Dumped minister Ed Husic’s social media sledging

After being dumped from the frontbench, MP Ed Husic has headed to social media to make some not-so-subtle attacks on Labor. Plus: Which voters do the Libs need to win back? Read The Sauce for this week’s political gossip.

Your good ol’ federal MP.

That’s how Ed Husic is styling himself on Instagram after his sensational dumping from the Labor frontbench by the party’s factional overlords.

And as just the good ol’ MP, he doesn’t have a lot to lose.

Ed Husic wearing his All Lives are Equal T-shirt. Picture: Instagram

So after an explosive interview on Insiders followed by an appearance on Q&A, the former Industry and Science Minister has continued his not-so-subtle attacks on Labor on social media.

Husic posted a photo of himself wearing fellow Palestine advocate and cricket legend Usman Khawaja’s “Freedom is a Human Right” T-shirt for the Q&A appearance.

Husic also agreed publicly with a comment saying “How far have we moved as a society when statements about valuing human life have become controversial and someone wants to silence us for making them”.

With the Albanese government’s second term only just beginning, it’s sure to be an eventful three years.

Watch this space.

STONE COLD TRUTHS

Two weeks on, and NSW Liberals are still trying to figure out where it all went wrong for them in the federal election – and how they can avoid the same fate at the state poll in two years.

So MPs were called into work early on Tuesday for an extended party room meeting to dissect the federal results.

For Seinfeld fans, think of it like the airing of grievances at an annual Festivus celebration.

NSW Liberal Party state director Chris Stone had advice for the state team. Picture: AAP Image

The Libs’ state director Chris Stone popped into Parliament House to brief MPs on the party’s failings, noting that they had lost support of “migrants, women, and younger voters” – declaring these were all groups the party needs to win back.

He said that the explosion in early voting had changed the nature of election campaigns, and noted that it was in the last week of the federal campaign that things all started to fall apart.

Stone said that “work needs to start now” on the campaign against the Minns government.

Following the debrief, one Lib quipped that if they are only starting now, then it could already be too late.

They also bemoaned the fact that the feds had – somehow – managed to “piss off” almost every voting cohort.

IT’S OVER

A 25c discount in fuel tax was probably one of the few Coalition policies of a nightmare federal election campaign that Robert Menzies would agree with.

Perhaps that’s why one loyal Liberal supporter was spotted on the Princes Highway earlier this week driving a truck emblazoned with “Save 25 cents per litre. Vote Liberal”.

Labor MP Sophie Cotsis wasted no time in rubbing it in: writing “it’s over Liberals, the election was last week, you lost.”

If the commitment survives the Coalition’s highly-anticipated policy review, the truck may come in handy in three years time.

Linda Silmalis is on leave

Originally published as The Sauce: Dumped minister Ed Husic’s social media sledging