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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Tony Barry

Sussan Ley is today’s scapegoat - but she was never the Liberals’ core problem

Angus Taylor
‘Angus Taylor will need to cast the net wide in the Menzies and Howard tradition and accepting that the Liberal party has people with a range of views on a wide variety of topics.’ Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

One of the great Liberal party pastimes is to simultaneously look for both scapegoats and Messiahs.

Sussan Ley is today’s scapegoat, and Angus Taylor is its new Messiah.

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