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Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University

Morrison's 'great electoral bungle' leaves the Liberals decimated and heading in the wrong direction

AAP/James Ross

It is pretty human to crave the approval of peers and to hope for more of the same, even if unconsciously.

But for political parties selling themselves as unifying forces of the middle, broad-based and representative, this way lies atrophy. And death.

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