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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Zoe Daniel

The Liberal party believes Trump-style politics is the way to win back power. But it just won’t work in urban Australia

Liberal leader Angus Taylor and deputy Jane Hume in front of Australian flags
Liberal leader Angus Taylor and deputy Jane Hume. Zoe Daniel writes that the opposition has offered ‘nothing bold or hopeful to inspire the younger voters who are looking for it’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

By its own admission, for the Liberal party it’s a case of change or die, but on the current trajectory outlined by its “everything old is new again” leadership team, it may well be change and die anyway.

In “chasing the noise”, as the veteran Liberal strategist Tony Barry describes it, the party has convinced itself that the only way to survive is to lean further to the right.

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