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

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!

the one true peoples representitive party,
diver dan,
Used to be, no longer the case now ! They've turned into economy saboteurs !

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.