'Thoughtless offending' blamed for Liberal poll rout The Liberal Party alienated immigrants, young people and women during its calamitous 2025 election campaign, which a review describes as its worst in history. AAP · Mar 3
Betrayal: Liberals bury review into election disaster The Liberal Party will not publicly release a long-awaited review into its deplorable 2025 election campaign, which one of its authors described as horrifying. AAP · Feb 27
Co-author of Liberal election review says party members will be ‘horrified’ at decision to suppress it The co-author of the Liberals’ election review, former minister Nick Minchin, has lashed out at the party’s Friday decision to suppress its publication. The Conversation · Feb 27
View from The Hill: Can Sussan Ley avoid Brendan Nelson’s fate? When you look at Sussan Ley’s predicament, you can’t help thinking of Brendan Nelson. The Conversation · Oct 6, 2025
Grattan on Friday: Sussan Ley hasn’t solved her Jacinta Price problem – it may just become bigger It says everything about the Liberals that the fracas over Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s comments about Indian immigrants became a proxy for the longer-term, debilitating battle over the party’s leadership and identity. The Conversation · Sep 11, 2025
Peter Dutton: a Liberal leader seeking to surf on the wave of outer suburbia In searching for the “real” Peter Dutton, it is possible to end up frustrated because you have looked too hard. The Conversation · Apr 27, 2025
Compulsory voting in Australia is 100 years old. We should celebrate how special it makes our democracy For nearly 200 years, the notion of American political exceptionalism has had currency in the United States: it is an idea rooted in the nation’s status as the first modern republic. As we watch from afar, disturbed yet mesmerised by the latest chapter of violent political division in America, the… The Conversation · Jul 21, 2024
Wedged between the CPAC circus and the teals, will Peter Dutton wither or find a new way to live? Could the Liberal party be co-opted by the rightwing fringe? It is structurally and institutionally weak after the May election loss The Guardian - AU · Oct 7, 2022
View from The Hill: Without those 'lefties' the Liberals can't regain government A key issue for the Liberals’ election post-mortem that reports later this year – conveniently after the Victorian election – is how the party deals in future with the “teal” phenomenon. The Conversation · Oct 4, 2022