Liberals are already history – and ALP should worry |
Some people just always try to focus on the bright side of life.
Jane Hume must be one of them.
The Victorian Liberal senator presented a cheery face on Wednesday when speaking of the Coalition’s future, arguing the reunification of the two parties was what Australia needed.
“I am a committed Coalitionist, but I am a Liberal first,” she told journalists in the press gallery hallway.
“We want to make sure that the Coalition not only agrees on the way that it’s going to operate internally but focuses externally too because this government, this terrible Labor government, is getting away with murder while the Coalition is in flux.
“We want to make sure that we bring the Coalition back together, but we do so in a way that it’s sustainable and that it’s going to work in the future to make sure that we can hold this Labor government to account every single day.”
There is a lot of heroic, toxic positivity in there. One, that the Coalition will be able to reunite and agree on a way forward when it hasn’t agreed on a policy direction, values or even what it stands for in the modern age, in years.
Hume would be familiar with these issues more than most – not only has she largely been shoved to the side within the Liberals, she was also tasked with the 2022 Coalition election review, which laid out a lot of the issues it faced. The parties not only didn’t change course, they sped up their bolt to the........