Liberal Party

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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