Since Tony Abbott’s ouster, the Liberal bosses’ efforts to purge conservatives from power has been in stark defiance to global and national trends. Despite mass defections to One Nation, despite the triumph of Eurosceptics in Britain and Hungary, despite the ascendency of Donald Trump, despite the collapse of the Left in France, the Liberals — ostensibly Australia’s centre-right ‘broad church’ — has done its very damnedest to isolate populist conservatives from their own party.
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