Now, of course, you could argue that climate change fence sitting has not stopped the public going for the Liberals before over the last 15 years - but the apparent success of the Teals in two elections now does strongly suggest to me that it has become a key issue for well off Australians based in the capital cities - who would formerly be seen as the Liberal's natural constituency.
As I'm sure I have written before, Malcolm Turnbull is the one who should have dragged the party into facing reality on this issue. He should have demanded that those who are going to continue casting doubt on the matter being a real, scientifically verified, issue should leave the party, and make any continuing coalition also dependent on the Nationals not undermining him. Maybe the Queensland melding of the parties would have made that difficult/impossible - but he should have acted decisively on it, instead of allowing the alternative to Labor to continue looking disingenuous in their strategy of "we believe in it - don't listen to our MPs and Senators who don't - but to keep the doubters happy we will nag continuously about renewables and undermine other action for political advantage."
Update: it seems still unclear if Tim Wilson will regain Goldstein, but you know, him being one of the few Liberal "wins" out of this generally disastrous election would actually amuse me, given that he is so ambitious that it will be funny to see how little he can achieve by being in such a diminished and talentless Opposition.
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Tim Wilson the proud libertarian lost his seat and set up a private company that given this attempt most probably failed in private enterprise the screaming hypocrite. I despise the man at a subatomic level.
What is Bongiorno on about? The Nationals held their seats and might gain one. I saw Sukkar and O'Brien on Q&A. Both were hopeless. Taylor should be kicked out of the party because as opposition treasurer he did nothing and Chalmers should have been an easy target for him. Yet Taylor is being touted as a leader! All the prospective leaders are hopeless. Hastie would be far better but will not contest the leadership.
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