Manger of Opposition Business Paul Fletcher has accepted a scathing review of the Liberals' election loss and identified three areas the party must improve to win back voters.
The Liberal Party has identified three key areas it must improve in if it is to return to government at the next federal election after it was deemed “not fit for purpose” inThe Coalition government went from 77 seats in the House of Representatives to 58 at the May 21 election, with the Liberal’s separate state divisions, a lack of women and effective digital marketing already highlighted among the party's failures.
“We do need more women candidates, no question of that absolutely no question of that so we’ve got work to do.” “Certainly it is an issue that we need to have more members and we do need to see a revitalisation of the way our party organisation works in each state if we are to be an effective campaigning organisation and if we’re to be in a position to form government again,” he said.
“We were up against very substantial extensively funded independent campaigns you know the teal campaigns we saw $2.1 million being spent in Wentworth we saw $1.38 million being spent in North Sydney,” he said. Former Liberal Party federal director Brian Loughnane and Victorian senator Jane Hume conducted the review which was presented to the 30-member federal executive on Wednesday and will be released on Thursday.
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