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\n1:33 A Big Win for the Andrews Government
\nWhat have we learned from the result?
\nAndrews wants to build infrastructure, keep safe schools and keep injecting rooms. The Libs wanted to stop safe schools, stop injecting rooms, reintroduce Religious Instruction classes and dog whistle a xenophobic law and order policy while shackled to a numbskull Federal Neo-Liberal party which denies climate change.
\nThe Insiders program had various people calling on the Liberal hierarchy to turn to the centre but they don’t understand that these people are ideological nutbags. The leadership and the current members are far more right wing than traditional Liberal voters.\u00a0 They should’ve called for ordinary people to sign up as members and take back the Party.
\n8:46 Andrew Bolt says the Victorian Liberals did not have enough conviction and need to move further to the right.
\nHard-right commentator Prue MacSween had a solution for the Coalition: super-cop and Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton. If he\u2019d been prime minister, \u201cwe may have had a chance\u201c.
\nThe\u00a0Daily Telegraph\u00a0columnist Miranda Devine occupied her usual territory of obsessing over strangers\u2019 sex lives and being furious at other people for not doing the same. Claiming\u00a0Guy \u201cwimped out\u201d\u00a0around the issue of safe schools, Devine said \u201cit illustrates a profound problem for the conservative side of politics. If you don\u2019t engage with the culture wars, you are complicit, and the electorate will view that as a betrayal.\u201d
\nJohn Ruddick is the author of\u00a0Make the Liberal Party Great Again.\u00a0Why NSW has moved to the right is a story for another day, but it\u2019s clearly the case. Berejiklian can become a Liberal legend and defy all the macro trends pointing to a looming state government defeat in four months \u2026 but she needs to move right. Her recent comments on immigration (later copied by Morrison) were a good start.
\nLiberal senators have refused to agree to the protection of LGBT students from discrimination unless the current legal exemptions are replaced by other protections for religious freedom.\u00a0The dissenting senators were Ian MacDonald, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, Jane Hume, Eric Abetz, Amanda Stoker, Jonathon Duniam, Barry O\u2019Sullivan and Slade Brockman.
\n11:40 This is part of a trend\u00a0against Liberals over the last 11 elections.
\nThe Good news is Christian Parties disappeared without a trace but unfortunately, so did Reason\u00a0Party.
\nAlongside a huge swing to the Labor government led by Daniel Andrews, the Victorian state election\u00a0marked the disappearance of the Family First, Rise Up Australia and Australian Christian political parties. They appear to have disappeared without a trace. \u00a0Unlike the SA election last year Family First and Australian Christian local candidates and local volun...","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/085762e2-797c-4ef4-9b10-434ecde61c07/logo2018v2.jpg"}