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Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of Politics, La Trobe University

How the Liberals lost the 'moral middle class' - and now the teal independents may well cash in

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Josh Frydenberg says they are fake independents, John Howard called them anti-Liberal groupies, Scott Morrison points out they are only standing in Liberal seats, and that a vote for them is in fact a vote for Labor.

Well, they would say this, wouldn’t they, as the Liberal heartland fractures, risking not only the return of the government but the careers of its more promising golden sons.

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