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How the Liberals can beat the Teals at their own game : Comments

By Dale Hughes, published 29/12/2022

Political parties, particularly the Liberals, are putting forward candidates who are not necessarily representative of the community.

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"There is truth to the criticism that the Liberal Party is the party of white men". If he thinks that, the Liberal party is much better off without him.

The difference between the Liberals and Labor is now close to zero. And the Liberals 60 page soul-search following the election indicates that the gap will be even closer if they are silly enough to implement the report. The authors of the report, by the way, were 50/50 in gender.

The Liberals have to forget the Teal seats altogether. Despite the rumour that the victorious Teals were ex-Liberal supporters, none of them actually were; and only 18% of people who voted for the Teals were disaffected Liberals - the rest were all ex-Labor and minor parties. The rich people in the leafy electorates are all Tesla-socialists these days. No use to the Liberals.
Posted by ttbn, Thursday, 29 December 2022 11:32:43 AM
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Scomo led the Libs down the tube because he respected no one, stood for nothing and adopted woke policies. At least Boris had an excuse for his stupid woke policies, but the outcome was the same. Why would voters vote for pretend nongs when they can vote for real nongs?
Posted by Fester, Thursday, 29 December 2022 12:42:38 PM
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Agree!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Thursday, 29 December 2022 12:54:47 PM
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«If the major political parties wish to remain relevant during the coming decades,»

Remain? They never were!

«they need to find innovative responses to the disruption caused by Australians' increasing tendency to experiment with independents and minor parties»

Wanting to prevent political disruptions, you bastards? look no further, learn from Putin who is quite successful in that area.
Or if you are looking for softer non-lethal approaches, check out Singapore: if your suburb votes for the wrong candidate, then no services for you for the next five years - no roads repaired, no parks, no sewers, no flood mitigation, no new workplaces other than the most noisy and polluting ones which nobody else wants nearby their home, watch your neighbourhood turning into a slum - next time you learn!

«The LNP could sell itself as truly liberal»

Use guns, mate, and torture implements, learn from Iran: anyone who dares to suggest that you are not truly liberal should not be envied!

«The inevitable consequence would be people from a wider cross-section of society battling it out to represent the party.»

What a great honour, for people to represent the party...
One jester once dared to suggest that political parties should represent the people, but that was one joke too many and he found his demise in a mental ward.

«Some people don't renew their party memberships because they lose faith in the direction of their party, but I suspect many equally part ways due to commitments beyond political volunteering.»

That said about mere membership, how more so for actual candidates?
They will necessarily be the left-overs, the scum who have nothing better to do in their lives than flying back-and-forth to Canberra, there shouting at and making a show of insulting each other, pretending to have a real and important dispute: people who have a worthwhile life of their own, people who have real talents to contribute, will never find the time to leave all goodness behind and opt for such empty lives.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Thursday, 29 December 2022 3:01:50 PM
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Stop pandering & waste millions on the unproductive intellectuals & reward the productive & useful !
Posted by Indyvidual, Thursday, 29 December 2022 5:39:47 PM
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Very true Yuyutsu.
Posted by Maverick, Thursday, 29 December 2022 8:41:48 PM
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How many of us watched as the Liberals tore down the one true peoples representitive party, the Union movement, a peoples solidarity movement, a truely representative movement with a history of struggle over many years grounded in listening to the voice from an electorate which is now generally ignored.

The Liberals were pretty much responsible for working against the electorate it now pretends to serve; but it doesn’t at all represent a majority of the electorate below the management class.

Both major parties have ceased their relevance to the battlers, the vast majority of the population.

If it weren’t such an ideological pig, amusingly, the ABC would
Make for a more representative political party.
That sadly is no joke
Posted by diver dan, Friday, 30 December 2022 7:32:40 AM
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What Dale Hughes suggests is power for powers sake.

The Liberal Party should have no commitment to core values, no real differentiating policy and promote candidates that "look the part" but offer nothing of substance, simply like the Cuckoo, lay your eggs in the other birds nest until the deception is realised and your chicks are thrown out, but that can take a while. Post war politics in Australia has been predictable, progressive leadership through the Labor Party for a period, until something goes wrong, politically or economically, then put the Tories in power with their; "steady as she goes...slow astern" mentality. This has worked successfully for the conservative side of politics for several generation, from 'Pig Iron' Bob to the less than useless ScumO' Morrison. 'Pig Iron' Bob managed to hold onto post war power from 1949 to 1966, without ever having to implement and kind of progressive legislation, on the other hand he did manage to implement several pieces of regressive legislation, but mostly no legislation of merit what so ever.

Times have changed somewhat, and the voting public demand more from political parties than a do nothing approach like that of past Tory governments. The good old scare campaign at election time, the other guys terrible, worse than me approach no longer is effective. The Tories are in a bind, they have to articulate real policy for the first time in their lives, and they just don't have any! Take one look at Dud Dutton, totally bereft of policy on anything and everything. Recent elections, Federal and State has seen the Tories running from the political arena with their hair and pants on fire. Good stuff!
Posted by Paul1405, Friday, 30 December 2022 8:13:28 AM
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the one true peoples representitive party,
diver dan,
Used to be, no longer the case now ! They've turned into economy saboteurs !
Posted by Indyvidual, Sunday, 1 January 2023 4:10:04 PM
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Peter van O's suggestion on social issues etc. being bypassed in favour of conscience votes is right, but also wrong as these sociocultural issues are needed to fire up a base of support, in cooperation with LNP media.

One would suggest the Libs need to get back to grounded or genuine branch memberships, catering to constituents then allow some policy input and ownership versus catering to donors and/or top end of town; the latter has become the disease of GOP and UK Tories with unfit policies being jammed downwards.
Posted by Andras Smith, Tuesday, 3 January 2023 6:58:13 PM
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