The Liberal party’s ageing membership is in freefall in Australia’s two most populous states, according to multiple party sources, with one claiming their branch’s biggest expense in recent years has become “funeral wreaths”.
The Liberals were decimated in major cities at the federal election, losing the Victorian seats of Menzies and Deakin as well as Banks and Hughes in Sydney and possibly Bradfield, where the electoral commission is conducting a recount. The story in the other capitals was no better.
