Comment on Is Australia's Overton Window Shifting?
Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 weeks agoFrom what I understand, the only people contesting it are Angus Taylor (from the right faction) and Sussan Ley (whose positioning seems debatable). Neither seem like particularly great options, though. The moderate faction seems to have been decimated, even at the membership level. From Crikey:
One moderate contacted Crikey the morning after the election, describing the faction as a “critically endangered species”. They were plainly upset at what they saw to be a shift to the right supported by the party’s membership base.
“As long as you have a cooked membership, we’re going to continue to have cooker candidates,” they said.
The concerns echo a piece in the Australian Financial Review by Phil Coorey, who said the Liberal Party had “no soul to search” after many future leaders of the party lost their seats or saw their margins decimated. Coorey noted many of those were moderates, and “the broad church is no more”.
It doesn’t sound like they actually have many options left if they want to lead the party back towards the centre in the short-term, and getting wiped out of major cities isn’t going to help that either.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The rest of the article you quoted discusses the need for liberals to become more moderate.
These are the two paragraphs following yours:
Ilandar@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Of course the remaining people in the moderate faction think they need to be more vocal. It doesn’t change the fact that they are really struggling right now and that the people in leadership positions seem to be more interested in listening to Gina Rinehart and Sky After Dark, who are still arguing that the reason the Liberals are losing voters is because they haven’t moved far enough to the right and still don’t spend enough time on culture wars.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Ok mate, we will see what happens.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I mean, so what if they listen to that advice and try to lean into the culture wars? So they lose some more elections, I think it would do a world of good for this country if the Liberals fell into irrelevance and we had a rise of politicians like the Teal independents that actually care about climate change.
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Just thought I’d check in with you after the Liberals voted for Ley as their new moderate leader.
Ilandar@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
As I said previously:
You realise this is the same person who denied that the Liberal Party has a problem with women voters, and defended their recent campaign with the genius line of “women drive cars too”? She will be knifed well before the party makes any significant shift back to the centre. You are clutching at straws if you think Sussan Ley as leader is evidence of some progressive shift in Australia.