Pauline Hanson is a woman who says she ‘doesn’t back down’. This week brought two high-risk demonstrations of heels firmly dug in to prove it.
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The attack comes after One Nation published a cartoon that makes referenced to Hastie as a ‘traitor’.
As he surveys the degraded and demoralised Liberal Party he presides over, Angus Taylor has major problems.
Andrew Hastie has become a special target for One Nation over his willingness to give evidence against Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith.
He said he had a “visceral” reaction to Trump’s criticism of US allies not stepping up in the war with Iran.
As the polls slump continues for the Liberals, Angus Taylor is semi-openly rounding up the numbers to challenge Sussan Ley’s leadership.
With Andrew Hastie out of the way, Angus Taylor has decisions to make. Leadership struggles are always messy but the optics of this one are worse than most.
With a final reshuffle of the shadow ministry put off for another week, Ley has left the door for political reunification firmly open.
The times don’t suit the Liberals, and the Liberals don’t have top people to suit the times. Worse for them, there is no sign of either of those things changing.
A stand-off between leadership hopefuls Andrew Hastie and Angus Taylor delays the inevitable and prolongs the Liberals’ pain.
Those around Sussan Ley seem confident her fragile leadership would survive into next year. But some in the party look to Andrew Hastie as the parties future.
While Sussan Ley’s leadership remains under pressure, she isn’t giving any indication that she’s given up yet.
The Liberals are set to dump net zero with a strong majority of the party room speaking out against the policy.
Liberal James Paterson has warned his party against a forever ‘ongoing mass public therapy session.’ saying the party has to focus itself on prosecuting Labor.
Sussan Ley has reshuffled her frontbench team again after Liberal Andrew Haste resigned as Shadow Minister of Home Affairs over immigration concerns .
Winning government from opposition broadly involves three stages: establishing competence, offering an alternative vision of government, and surviving the campaign.
The Liberal rebel has dramatically quit Sussan Ley’s shadow frontbench citing being unable to craft the Liberals’ immigration policy as his core reason.
The prime minister avoided any major pitfalls during his week in the US. Back at home, the Liberal party’s infighting has shown no signs of stopping.
Only a few months into her leadership, Sussan Ley is facing an extraordinary insurgency from Liberal frontbenchers.
Whatever the result on May 3, even Liberal insiders think they have run a very poor national campaign. Not just poor, but odd.
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