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, 28/11) then, hopefully, banning duck shooting, banning logging in old-growth forests and protecting native flora and fauna, rates highly on Andrews’ agenda.Listening to the shadow treasurer on election night claiming that the Liberals still represented a “broad church” in the electorate, I realised that this is the root of the party’s repeated failures to gain government here in Victoria.
It seems to me that we now live in a society which is divided into the haves and the have-nots. A large number of voters feel consigned to the latter category, either unskilled workers employed in precarious jobs, or those with skills but employed on fixed-term contracts with few safeguards, no career paths upwards and fewer chances of improving their outlook.
Having decimated Victoria’s public administration, Kennett now presumes to pontificate upon the woes of the organisation he led into that folly. To construct a successful future the Liberals have to go back 30 years, to their roots before Kennett.As the election dust settles, the abundance of journalists, commentators, social media trolls and letter writers to newspapers, telling the world that they know how governments should perform, will ease off for a second or two.
Until it re-examines its core values and offers more than superficial campaigns, the Liberal Party runs the risk of being relegated to history.One of the slogans on the Liberals’ election material was “helping hard-working families”. When I saw that, what came to mind is “hard work is its own reward”.
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