Julia Banks: What next for the Liberal Party and will Frydenberg ride to the rescue?

Dutton’s Liberal Party is like a 'big, unwieldy out-of-date steamroller. Photo: AAP/TND

If Scott Morrison was the self-described ‘bulldozer’, Peter Dutton’s Liberal Party is like an unwieldy, out-of-date steamroller.

The Liberals veered away from the centre in 2016, and after the leadership coup in 2018 took a sharp and excruciating turn to the right, as far from the centre as their old steamroller could possibly go.