Ben was joined by Michael Evangelidis from GovConnex to discuss the factions of the Liberal Party of Australia – how fluid they are, how they work from the branch level to federal and state party rooms, and how the factions have changed in recent years.
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With the great unwashed generally disinterested, but easily spooked by the portrayal of what was once family values as the epitome of right wingery, it is pretty hard to be socially conservative and simultaneously economically neo-cons and still be portrayed fairly by the media.
The Libs are now suffering from the ‘if you don’t believe … you’ll believe in anything’ narrative. Indeed, their whole policy platform is effectively a net zero area as big as the REZs imposed on many of the electorates!
So, our politics is all about the 8% of voters that can be swayed by interest groups.