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null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoThe rest of the article you quoted discusses the need for liberals to become more moderate.
These are the two paragraphs following yours:
Charlotte Mortlock, a former journalist and Liberal staffer, is the founder of Hilma’s Network, an organisation designed to encourage greater participation of women in the Liberal Party. She told Crikey the moderate wing of the party needed to be “more vocal than ever”.
“Pandering to the base of the party hasn’t worked for them,” she said. “The broader public need to see them being vocal and overt in their demands for reform and if they’re not, then they can’t blame the public for not knowing they exist.”
Ilandar@lemm.ee 1 day 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 1 day ago
Ok mate, we will see what happens.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours 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.
Salvo@aussie.zone 3 hours ago
The more the Liberal Party and Gina’s and Rupert’s Right Wing media waffle on about the Mythical Culture war, the more people think that it is actually a thing.
Zuck’s and Elon’s Right Wing “new” media need to Fuck Off too.