Perhaps the issue is that the public is giddy with magical thinking that the Libs aren't offering. In 2022-23 power prices will increase about 50% and 650,000 immigrants will arrive creating more strain on services and housing. So far the public thinks it will all smooth over but it may not in which case the ALP honeymoon is finished. If 'the Voice' gets up some of the negative predictions may eventuate. Smart alecky pronouncements from Albanese will start to gall.

Therefore the Libs should hold their nerve. I'm not sure why but women voters don't like either Morrison or Dutton both with fairly tough images. A future Lib leader needs to avoid that.

The Liberal Party has been going downhill ever since the Howard defeat, and it is now close to rock bottom.

All 'leaders' have been "insipid" since that time, and the current one, Du(d)on, is a real doozy. He looks to be in a trance.

"....remember the lessons of their founder, Robert Menzies ….". Would most of them even know who Menzies was? Would they care? Politics these days is just a job: people want to be politicians as a well-paid career, for their own benefit, not the country's or the people's. They have zero values.

The sooner the Liberals go, the better. This country needs Conservatives. The problem is though, there are not enough voters with the sense to realise this, and Australia looks like being Communist red all over for a long time yet. It is probably pointless to even discuss the Liberals any more.

This country needs Conservatives.
ttbn,
yes and, it also needs people with a sense of responsibility ! The Goaft literally out-lawed responsibility & the drug-ridden alcoholic dumb took it up with gusto !
The Gene pool is stagnant because of all those oxygen thieves got free passes !

The Libs will be in the back blocks for years to come unfortunately. Life today is about ME, ME, and Me again and the younger ones don’t t care who pays. Required today is free or cheap housing, free medical, education, child care and numerous other “free” life style requirements. The Libs over the years have made an effort to balance the books whereas Labor don’t care and spend, spend and spend some more. The day of reckoning will come but the labor pollies will be long gone and wont worry as they live life to the full on their government pensions.

Good to see Finnland go Conservative over the weekend.

Branch stacking saw an influx of conservative elements, the retirement of moderates and the emergence of the TEALS. The liberal party is not liberal in any sense of the word, but conservative and becoming more hard right with every branch stacked outcome. I believe there's no longer a home for the moderates in the party, who would do better for themselves and the country as TEALS.

As such able to remain fiscally conservative and socially progressive as Sir Robert Menzies. Who presided to a large extent of the most prosperous period in this nation's history when we were the third wealthiest nation and a creditor one to boot!

We need a giant of a leader and reform to force the hard right conservatives to join political organisations that reflect their political philosophies.

We need to undo the harm done by idiotic ideological imperatives and those driven by the same. We need to return to cooperative capitalism and the co-ops that served the national interest and our rural and regional communities so well!

We need pragmatism and bipartisan support for good ideas no matter where they came from, as Sir Robert would have so ably exampled.

Policies needed include rapid rail down the eastern seaboard and nuclear power, as MSR thorium, to force down the ever-rising cost of living or doing business in this country. And we need to restart manufacture and a pragmatic plan to drought proof the nation!
Alan B.