Former prime minister Tony Abbott elected unopposed as Liberal Party president

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  After disastrous election results, conservative party acknowledges the need for change and…

  …tries winding the clock back 20 years.

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• auzy1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  That’s the best they can do?

  We have 30million people in Australia, and they need to recycle old men who lost an election years ago?

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• Mantzy81@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As a vehemently left winger, ha!

  But also, I like a stronger centre right to keep the left wing in check too and be more representative of the actual predominant feeling of the electorate. But Abbott? Please. What a terrible but utterly predictable outcome that will produce nothing beneficial to the liberals and arguably leave them in the doldrums for many years to come. If they’re trying to get those that have moved towards the Nats and ON back on their side they’ve got it wrong yet again.

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  • MisterFrog@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    As a vehemently left winger

    I like a stronger centre right to keep the left wing in check too

    Wat.

    I don’t think those two positions work together.

    We want the right to crumble so politics moves further left, no?

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    • Ilandar@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We want the right to crumble so politics moves further left, no?

      Why would the sole party of governance, Labor, move to the left if they can win elections unopposed? They haven’t given any indication that they plan to do this despite being in their second term whilst the Coalition dies out and the right fragments. Additionally, the main left wing party (The Greens) stalled at the last election and provides little threat.

      The only semi-realistic threat right now is a far right cooker party in One Nation and Labor doesn’t need to move left to combat them either.

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    • Mantzy81@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I want the Overton window to shift so the opposition is a centerist party. I also don’t want a singular party state which often happens if you get an extreme left or extreme right - I actually prefer mixed member proportionality with a concentrated left leaning bias.

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• compuglobalhypermeganet@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is going to be hilarious. The libs are already completely out of touch, then they put Tony Abbott in charge. Tony Abbott the lizard-person… Famous for always choosing the unpopular path. You can’t make this up. His legacy was already mud now he wants to be party president just as the party dies.

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• shirro@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nailing the coffin shut.

  Abbott and co played their part in the purge of moderate so-called small l liberals and now they are a minor party that unsurprisingly fails to represent the broad interests of centre right voters.

  You can hate the ALP right for keeping public schooling down to look after religious schools, backing socially conservative policies, neo-liberal economics increasing the wealth divide, an erosion of workers rights and govt services, anti environmental policies and being the mates of big business and foreign lobbies. But they keep the ALP relevant to a wider range of voters than a socialist workers party ever could and keep them in government. The Libs had breadth and a huge brand and they chose to give it up because they couldn’t see the big picture.

  Now someone on the right might as well go for ON or a teal or perhaps even the ALP. Dumbarses.

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• MrFlibble4747@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Never forgive him for the NBN cluster thingy, amongst other things.

  What a piece of … I suppose Peta Credlin will appear soon as Deputy President!!

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• Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Liberal leadership is flailing about looking for some way to avoid going extinct, and a bright spark decided let’s pull an ex-PM out of retirement and see if he can do the job.

  John Howard is too old, and won’t do it. Malcolm Turnbull is too rich, and won’t do it. Scott Morrison is too busy waiting to be raptured, and won’t do it.

  Who do we have left…?

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• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sloan Zone (just before his current hiatus) touched on this topic and unsurprisingly, the Liberals have chosen to double-down on barreling towards irrelevancy as quickly as possible.

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I almost thought someone posted an old article here as a joke

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  • DropBear@theblower.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    @tombruzzo
    When reality is indistinguishable from satire … 🙄
    @Valuy
    #AusPol

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