Liberal Party

Opposition to Coalition’s migration policy: “Australia’s great multiculturalism will be mourned”

Home Affairs and Immigration Minister, Tony Burke has slammed the opposition’s new migration policy, heavily criticising its controversial terms at a press conference yesterday. The plan proposes hard-line crackdown, including social media vetting, a “Safe Country List,” tougher deportation measures and a stricter test of national values and screening.  Amid debate between two major parties, …

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Leadership on the Brink

With the current Newspoll showing the Coalition currently favoured by less than 1 in 5 voters Liberal leader Sussan Leys finds herself walking a political tightrope. While Leys has healed the split with the Coalition partners, the Nationals who had a 17 day divorce after three ministers that voted against the hate speech legislation were …

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Coalition’s future voter base threatened if net zero is scrapped

Liberal MPs have descended on Canberra today for a meeting that will finalise whether they will keep or scrap net zero emissions by 2025. A decision that poses an existential threat to the party’s future, if they choose to distance themselves from a growing electorate concerned by climate change. The previous bipartisan support of net …

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Liberal Party’s “women problem” can be traced back to Howard Government, research finds

New research from Monash University traces the Liberal Party’s so-called “women problem” back to cultural and policy shifts under former Prime Minister John Howard. Research Author Dr Blair Williams says the party, once the political home of many women voters, abandoned its socially liberal traditions in the 1980s and has since struggled to win them …

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