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Ilandar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

From 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.

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