MPs say muzzled debate, culture wars and populism is killing liberalism | JordsBaker
A senior Liberal minister has warned that machine politics has taken hold of his party, leaving little room for dissenting voices, pushing it into the natural terrain of the Labor Party and turning it into the very thing liberalism is supposed to oppose.
“The mobilisation of messaging and money makes for a more malleable political machine. The problem is, making the Liberal Party into an election-winning bureaucracy has transformed it into the very thing it was established to fight. Liberal candidate for Warringah Katherine Deves made inflammatory comments about trans people during her failed campaign. Former prime minister Scott Morrison supported her candidacy.MPs who have dissented from the party over issues, such as Fiona Martin - who crossed the floor over laws allowing discrimination against transgender and gay students - also say they were frozen out by the federal party’s former leadership.
Across the country, women were continuing to lead change and growth across every industry, but “this isn’t reflected in the number of liberal-minded women leading the charge in our highest offices,” she will tell the forum.
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