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Liberals ‘fundamentally misread’ Australian society: Bragg
We’ve now heard from senator Andrew Bragg, as the post-mortem on the Liberal Party’s catastrophic loss in the election on Saturday continues.
Ultimately you’ve got to give people something to vote for… and I don’t think we had enough strong economic policies to win the day.
We could have done more to help households decarbonise, we could have done more to help households with mortgages, we could have done more on deregulation – and I think the deregulation piece is potentially very big for small and large businesses to help them to invest… There’s a lot of things we could have done better.
You’ve also got to understand the society in which you want to lead… I think the work from home is a good example of fundamentally misreading Australian society or picking issues that are focused on one minority group … [Australians] don’t want to see division. It’s important that we focus on economic issues and avoid these culture war issues at all costs.
There is no way we can ever hope to be the party of government unless we rebuild our appeal and our offering to those populations in the big cities, and then that will have to be our mission and will have to be, I think, probably our overwhelming focus as a party.
… would be expected to demonstrate and understanding of the reasons why we lost, quite a comprehensive diagnosis of that, and offer not just a viewpoint but a set of mechanisms and structures that will help us address those challenges. And I don’t pretend that that will be an easy or indeed an appealing task for many people.
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Author : Stephanie Convery
Publish date : 2025-05-04 21:48:00
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