The Latest Breaking News from Liberal Party

Exiled MP Moira Deeming to face expulsion vote next Friday

Victorian Liberal MPs will vote on whether to expel controversial Victorian MP Moira Deeming after she denied plans to sue the party over her suspension.

ABC News · May 6, 2023

Victoria’s rogue Liberal MP Moira Deeming flips, flops and drops legal threat

Exiled Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming will not pursue legal action over her temporary suspension from the parliamentary party. 

The New Daily · May 6, 2023

Victorian Liberals' bitter infighting seems more and more likely to end up in court. Can Dutton stop it?

The crisis consuming the Victorian branch of the Liberal Party sounds a warning to centre-right parties that pursuing the culture wars now gripping the United States and other countries brings dangerous volatility. And little public support.

The Conversation · May 5, 2023

'We'd be getting it from both sides, which was horrendous': Australian political players on our brutal refugee policies

In September 2017, I interviewed a senior figure within the Australian Labor Party in his office in Canberra. At one point in our discussion he told me:

The Conversation · May 2, 2023

Matthew Guy says some ‘dangerously politically stupid’ Sky News hosts are damaging the Liberal party

Former Victorian Liberal leader also criticises his party’s state president in his first interview since November

The Guardian - AU · May 2, 2023

Victorian Liberal MPs to have free vote in Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum

Victorian Liberal MPs will be free to cast a conscience vote in the Voice referendum, putting the state party at odds with its federal counterpart.

ABC News · May 2, 2023

Why was Bruce Lehrmann given the all-clear to sue media for defamation? A media law expert explains

Former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been given the all-clear to continue with defamation proceedings against several media outlets and journalists regarding reporting about Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations.

The Conversation · May 1, 2023

The Liberals are the fifth iteration of our main centre-right party. Could The Voice hasten a sixth?

Peter Dutton’s defensive posture of just appealing to "the base’" and trying to hold the Liberals together may prove the losing gambit.

The New Daily · Apr 30, 2023

The Liberals are the fifth iteration of Australia's main centre-right party. Could the Voice campaign hasten a sixth?

Party stability on the progressive side of politics, and repeated party reconfiguration on the conservative side of politics, is a marked contrast in the history of Australia’s two-party political system.

The Conversation · Apr 30, 2023

Former federal Liberal minister Ken Wyatt urges Australians on all sides of Voice debate to speak up

Former federal Liberal Indigenous Affairs minister Ken Wyatt encourages Australians to inform themselves about the Voice, and debate the looming referendum regardless of what side they are on.

ABC News · Apr 28, 2023