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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Liberal MP Bridget Archer urges other moderates to speak up as she presses for party change

The Coalition’s decision to oppose the Voice to Parliament has put its moderate members in a jam. Some moderates are active yes advocates, while others are trying to keep low profiles.

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NSW Liberals pick Maria Kovacic to fill late Jim Molan’s seat in Senate

Maria Kovacic, the former president of the NSW Liberal Party, will fill the senate vacancy left by the death of Jim Molan

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Vic Liberal leader John Pesutto on thin ice after protest and walk-out at party conference

Supporters of Moira Deeming have crashed a Liberal Party conference as tensions flare between members over the decision to expel her

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John Pesutto booed as Deeming supporters crash meeting

John Pesutto has been booed and heckled by supporters of Moira Deeming after they disrupted a Victorian Liberal Party conference clutching masks of her face.

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‘No intentions of abandoning the party’: Moira Deeming opens up on ‘awful’ Liberal expulsion

Moira Deeming says her expulsion from the Liberal Party has taken a "terrible" toll on her family, but she won’t abandon the party she loves.

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Dinesh Palipana, Cameron Caldwell nominate for Liberal Party preselection for Fadden

Stuart Robert's resignation announcement has prompted high-profile candidates to chase Liberal Party pre-selection for his safe Gold Coast seat.

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Ousted Victorian MP Moira Deeming says she will never quit or resign from Liberal Party

Moira Deeming says she feels she was "relentlessly hunted" before being expelled from the parliamentary party room, but will never quit the Liberal Party.

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Victorian Liberal MPs vote to expel Moira Deeming after stoush with leader John Pesutto

Rebel Victorian MP Moira Deeming has been expelled from the parliamentary Liberal Party after a meeting of MPs this morning, with Renee Heath ditched as partyroom secretary.

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Tasmania's Liberal government thrown into minority as MPs defect over $715 million AFL stadium in Hobart

Concerns over a contentious $715 million stadium and the government's priorities have pushed two Tasmanian MPs to quit the Liberal Party and sit as independents, ending Premier Jeremy Rockliff's majority.

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Police talk might have ‘crushed’ Higgins: Prosecutor

ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold denies he kept evidence from Bruce Lehrmann's defence because he knew it would "crush" Brittany Higgins.

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Bruce Lehrmann rape trial inquiry hearings to begin

A four-week inquiry examining the prosecution of ex-Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann over the alleged rape of Brittany Higgins will begin public hearings.

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Victorian Liberal leader John Pesutto confirms he will back Moira Deeming expulsion motion

Victorian Opposition Leader John Pesutto confirms he will support a second motion to expel controversial MP Moira Deeming from the parliamentary Liberal Party.

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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.

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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.

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Canada's Justin Trudeau may be struggling but he still commands his party

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will kick off what is likely to be the last Liberal Party convention before the next election on Thursday, and though fatigue with his government has deepened there is little question that he is fully in command of his party.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Will a preoccupation with party unity destroy the Liberal Party?

Such has been the turmoil over the Liberal Party’s recent decision to join the National Party in campaigning against the forthcoming referendum on the Voice to Parliament that even some of the most reliable supporters in the media have remarked on the internal division.

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Simon Morgan appointed new WA Liberal state director despite 'treacherous' blog history

A man who once ran a scathing and anonymous blog aimed at a state Liberal leader is chosen as the WA Liberal Party's new state director.

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Suspended Liberal MP to return, vows to 'defend women'

Victorian MP Moira Deeming has no plans to leave the Liberal party after she was suspended by the leader following her attendance at an anti-trans rights rally.

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Retiring Karen Andrews won’t campaign against Voice

The Coalition's outgoing home affairs spokesman, Karen Andrews, won't join the opposition's campaign against the Indigenous Voice.

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Liberal Party has a 'lot of work to do': retiring MP

Speaking about her retirement from parliament at the next election, Liberal MP Karen Andrews says her party has a lot of lost ground to make up.

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Corruption probers raid homes of ‘senior’ NSW Liberals

The homes of past and present NSW Liberal Party members have been reportedly raided as part of an anti-corruption investigation.

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ICAC raids homes of NSW Liberal members: report

Laptops and phones have been seized during raids conducted by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption.

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