“Modernisation”, meaning moving further to the Left and embracing woke - just like the Socialist Albanese government: moving to a one party system.

The wet Liberals deserve everything they got, and everything they are going to get by listening to people who want them to lose.

“Australians don't like Donald Trump's bombastic style”. Who says? Who knows what Australians want? They don't seem to know themselves. They just vote for whoever gives them them most for ‘nothing’ - too dumb to know that they are just getting their own money back.

An electorate that returned the hard Left Albanese government and thinks that the Liberal Party is too far to the right deserves what it gets. Australians are politically illiterate.

Here is another neo-nationalist conservative claiming the sky is falling, and the poor unfortunate folk need saving from themselves! Dan claims; "The future is a thoughtful new conservatism." News for you buddy! "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" Dress it up anyway you like, but at the end of the day the majority of Australians are comfortable with politicians offering progressive reform, not having a bunch of old reactionary conservatives running the show, wanting to wind back the clock to the "good old days" of Pig Iron Bob!

In the ABC/SMH/Guardian victory laps, the "only answer" is for the Coalition to be as woke as Labor, embracing open borders, identity politics, and the "science" of climate "change".

Looks like the Ley Coalition is listening. Even when Albanese went "Woodside Net Zero" on May 26, obvious nonsense, and clearly having a lend, they had no real response, they didn't want to rock the boat.

The liberal Party won’t have a future UNLESS it embraces ‘Teal Progressivism’.

Voters today want much more than the tired old platforms of anti-immigration, climate change denialism, aggressive militarism and growth-at-all-costs laissez-faire neoliberalism.

I’m no fan of Sussan Ley, but at least she seems to be trying to steer her party into a more sensible and centrist course. The problem for her is that Albanese has well and truly occupied this do-nothing middle ground. He’s bowing to the pressure of the major parties’ corporate and fossil fuel backers with a boot-licking deference that most Liberals could only dream of.

Far from being a ‘hard Left’ government, Albanese is holding us all to a conservative inertia which has left the Liberals with nowhere to go. The Coalition needs to pull its head in for a few years and leave it to the Greens, Teals and Progressive independents to push Labor into finally achieving some real policy reform.

There are those on this forum who disparagingly refer to "woke" as if its something to be despised at all cost! If having a social conscience and a belief in equality rather that a hate mentality is "woke" then like the vast majority of Australians, I am proud to be "woke"! What are you fellas? Racists bigots!

The biggest problem with both sides today is nepotism. Purchasing officers should never know the identity of parties they are awarding government contracts to. The coalition and Labor are no different from the CFMEU in this respect.

I'd be happy to see the conservatives run on a social democracy platform, distinguishing themselves from Labor by ending nepotism, having properly audited expenditure and a workable energy policy.