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Editor's note
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Australia has new leadership, with Scott Morrison and Josh Frydenberg today elected leader and deputy leader of the Liberal Party, respectively. Malcolm Turnbull has indicated he will leave parliament sooner rather than later, and now it is up to Morrison, as the PM-elect, and Frydenberg to try to reunite a deeply divided party that in the past week has ripped itself apart.
And for what? Certainly not for electoral reasons, writes Adrian Beaumont, but rather, at least in part, because of the idea the party has deserted its “base”. It is an idea, Tony Walker writes, that it
would be foolish to chase, if it has any hope of regrouping and again being a viable electoral force.
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Amanda Dunn
Section Editor: Politics + Society
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Australia, meet your new PM
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Morrison has shown a deft hand at balancing politics with his own ambition.
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Rob Manwaring, Flinders University
Morrison has proved to be conservative on social policy, but wedded to a neo-liberal economic agenda.
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A politician out of his time
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Turnbull may be the last of the old liberal-conservative politicians.
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Geoffrey Robinson, Deakin University
Turnbull brought a Menzian style to his leadership, but the world has changed quite a bit since Robert Menzies.
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From Michelle Grattan
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Prtime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will invite a leadership "spill" motion at midday Friday, once a majority of Liberals formally ask for a party meeting.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The ideological hardliners were obsessed with the climate, free speech and other culture wars. Their discordant voices have been amplified by their good mates in News Corp, including Sky, and 2GB.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministership appears over, with senior ministers deserting him in favour of challenger Peter Dutton.
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Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The new deputy is the Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg, 47, from Victoria, who won overwhelmingly, from fellow Victorian Greg Hunt and Queenslander Steve Ciobo.
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What now?
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Prime Minister-elect Scott Morrison would be mistaken if he believed his party’s salvation lay in a further lurch to the right in pursuit of an ill-defined “base”.
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Tony Walker, La Trobe University
Morrison would be mistaken if he believed his party’s salvation lay in a further lurch to the right in pursuit of an ill-defined "base"
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45 votes to 40
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Adrian Beaumont, University of Melbourne
Analysis of the polls shows the deposing of Malcolm Turnbull made absolutely no electoral sense.
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