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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Anne Davies

A step to the left or a lurch to the right: what next after the Liberals’ election horror show?

Peter Dutton, the likely new leader of the Liberal party, speaks at a function on election night.
Peter Dutton, the likely new leader of the Liberals, speaks at a function on election night. He will inherit a party in the grip of an identity crisis. Photograph: Jono Searle/AAP

Faced with the disastrous loss of its heartland seats in the wealthier suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne, a near wholesale rejection in Western Australia and losses in other urban middle ring seats, the Liberal party faces a true crisis of identity.

How does it rebuild?

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