The "Liberal" party need to kick out the (hard right neo-Nazis) conservatives who've swelled their ranks in recent years.

The moderates need to understand that the "conservatives" are the stinking albatross hanging around their collective necks and sort as always to surf on their coattails to power!

And the public have finally woken and are not having any! Hence the rise of the teals and probably feature as far forward as the eye can see! Only, even more so!
Alan B.

Bring back the policies of the Hitler sycophant 'Pig Iron' Bob Menzies, with his racism through the "White Australia" policy, persecution of Aboriginal people, exploration of working men and women, Menzies favoured 10% unemployment, underpaid women in the workforce, a "Body Hire" policy with the removal of all worker benefits other than a mega pay ration. Menzies believed no worker should ever own a house, or heaven forbid, a car! The bloke was a coward, in favour of Australia's involvement in WWI, but failed to enlist himself, as an politician during WWII, Menzies was willing to allow the Japanese to invade Australia with his infamous 'Brisbane Line'.

Quoting Menzies;

"[The} abandonment by the Germans of individual liberty and of the easy and pleasant things of life has something rather magnificent about it … they have erected the state, with Hitler as its head, into a sort of religion which produces spiritual exaltation that one cannot but admire."

ttbn, he, he, snigger, snigger. As the conservatives moved further and further to the right, so did labor.

The worker's party is little more than a memory with the ranks now filled by (labor in name only) professional politicians who give lip service only to the once visionary labor party of Chiefly and Curtain

Labor is now filled the gap that was formerly filled by Menzies moderate small L liberals, fiscally conservative and socially progressive moderates!

And a totally different animal from the hard right folk like yourself and who see anyone left of your extreme right-wing position as bleeding heart lefties!

Hang on to the self-delusion, illusion and attitude and watch as more and more so-called "liberals" are replaced in our parliaments by even more and more teals!

Keep on making stupidity a virtue and watch as my predictions become your future reality! "Genius"!
Alan B.

The Liberals lost a large number of votes to the Teal Greens despite trying to chase those votes down the climate change rabbit-hole. But the fact is the Libs could never compete with the Teals because, despite Frydenberg's wanton largess, they needed to remain marginally fiscally responsible.

The Teals had and have no such problems. That will remain a winning formula for the Teals until the electorate discovers the cost of climate change fanaticism. The Liberals need to get themselves prepared for that time which will come sooner than many think.

Returning to Menzies style liberalism is neither possible nor advisable. That time is past. That is not the period the Liberals should be targeting. Instead, it needs to look to the early Howard period before that government, in fear of voter tsunami around climate change, tried to buy their way out of the problem.

When the Asian financial crisis hit, the Howard-Costello partnership saw the country emerge relatively unscathed and indeed, strengthened. The coming financial crises will make that 1998 period seem like a blimp. A fiscally responsible Liberal Party ought to be positioning itself to await the return of voters seeking a safe harbour in those coming trying times.

But alas, such a party needs to take a long view of the economic welfare of the nation while today's politician (of all hues) looks to the personal here and now rather than the national long term interest.

It's rare that I praise a post by Paul. But his most recent one here is indeed a gem.

In it he has managed to list pretty much every Labor myth about Menzies every contrived. They are all, each and every one, utterly false as I've demonstrated to Paul in the pages over the years. But being utterly wrong is Paul's default starting position.

Myth making is one of the few tasks the left is good at. And they love their myths, the less factual the better.

Liberal Party members and supporters are now old and the numbers are dropping fast. Those supporters come from a previous generation. The issues that attracted them to the Liberal Party have gone, and new issues have emerged, to which they are not adapting. The old are important, but they are not a viable political majority. Anyway, baby boomers (whose votes kept the Liberal Party strong) are now dying, and millennials already outnumber those baby boomers.

This is the irrelevance of the conservative force and the reason The Liberal Party lost the last Federal Election and the next State Election..A LACK OF RESPECT