The Liberal Party is the dominant centre-right Party in Australia.
FORMER Coalition Senator Sam McMahon will contest the upcoming federal election as a libertarian-leaning Liberal Democrats candidate. The former senator resigned in late January from the Country Liberal Party – part of the governing centre-right Coalition – after losing a tough pre-selection…
THE defender of Liberal members’ constitutional right to select candidates has been expelled from the Party, as Scott Morrison keeps his “captain’s picks”. State Executive board member Matthew Camenzuli, who took his fight to the High Court this week, was removed from…
by PAUL COLLITS – RECRIMINATIONS have begun for the Coalition, especially for the Liberal Party, following its drubbing in the recent South Australian election. The former Marshall Government, in office merely one term, was consigned to the dustbin of history in an…
NSW Liberal Party members are in revolt as the Prime Minister and NSW Premier move to revoke their constitutional right to preselect federal candidates. In a move described as a “death wish”, the Party’s Federal Executive has sidelined the NSW Executive and…
by PAUL COLLITS – ELECTIONS are suddenly in the air, now competing for column and screen space with war, floods and a (fading) megastar virus. Whether you are a genuine, probably disgruntled, conservative, an outsider or merely a jaded and befuddled swinging…
ANOTHER Left-embracing State Liberal Party has been hammered at the polls, with South Australian Liberal leader Steven Marshall struggling to hold his own seat. In a replay of WA’s 2021 election disaster, South Australians carried baseball bats to yesterday’s general election to…
PRIME Minister Scott Morrison has been accused of manufacturing a crisis to push through a factional deal that tramples Liberal Party members’ constitutional rights. The deal effectively hands pre-selection to a number of sitting parliamentarians – without them having to face pre-selection…
WITH factional heavyweights delaying critical federal pre-selections, Liberal Party boss Chris Stone has been threatened with a Supreme Court law suit. The delays have occurred as factions attempt to cut members out of the candidate selection process and, instead, stitch up a…
LIBERAL factional bosses are engaging in backroom deals to prevent Party members from exercising their newly acquired right to select candidates. With the 2022 federal election only months away, NSW powerbrokers have stalled the pre-selection process – hoping to stitch up deals…
WE JUST knew they had to be batting for the other team. But they weren’t. So how did we get them so wrong? Their mannerisms, vocal inflection, policy agenda and general deportment left us in little doubt their preferences lay elsewhere. They…
