Angus and Dan can save the Liberals

Angus Taylor at the National Press Club during the 2025 election campaign

The mainstream media keep banging on about how the Coalition lost because they aren’t left enough. That is absolute nonsense. The Liberals facilitated the fracturing of the conservative vote by being Labor-lite. Every conservative knows this is true. Conservatives don’t want the Liberal Party to go left – they want the Liberal Party to be conservative.

Even NSW Opposition Leader Mark Speakman wants to drag the Liberals further to the left and to introduce gender quotas. We already have socialist parties. Conservatives want a conservative party, and they don’t care what woke wets think is best. But the only way Angus Taylor and Dan Tehan can save the Liberals is if they stand up to the Woke rot and represent conservatives with no excuses.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

As the Saturday night dust continues to settle, the Liberal party has sank into a morass of recriminations, back-stabbing and finger-pointing. And yet their first order of business is choosing a new leader from current deputy Sussan Ley, shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, and immigration spokesman Dan Tehan. Michael de Percy is advocating for a Taylor-Tehan unity ticket. Your scribe’s response is that Taylor must not be rewarded for the damage he has done the centre-right cause, allowing the Coalition’s key selling point of superior economic manager to be trashed to the point of being irrecoverable. Sussan Ley, who added a letter to her name for numerological harmony, for goodness’ sake, has history that Labor would exploit ruthlessly and, really, what has she done? In my view, Tehan is the short- to medium-term answer: someone who can keep the remnants of the team united, is policy-savvy yet knows how the political sausage machine works. Being a rural MP doesn’t matter, as he has an urban background. Reverse the de Percy ticket order and it might just work, or keep Ley in her current position with Tehan as leader. But put the political stake through Angus’s leadership ambitions.

My election coverage in The Spectator Australia, Angus and Dan can save the Liberals.

"Conservatives don’t want the Liberal Party to go left – they want the Liberal Party to be conservative."

The only way Angus Taylor and Dan Tehan can save the Liberals is if they stand up to the Woke rot and represent conservatives with no excuses.https://t.co/puxvw3dEFC

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 5, 2025

A great day for Albo’s Mediscam

Albo during the 2025 election with his ubiquitous but otherwise useless Medicare card

Every time I see Albo wave his Medicare card around, I know he is gaslighting us. Labor has promised to increase the number of bulk-billing general practitioners (GPs) and to ensure that most Australians will be no more than a 20-minute drive away from a bulk-billing clinic.

In the lead-up to the election, the Australian Association of Practice Management said it was all ‘smoke and mirrors’. Here’s how the details are massaged.

Writing in the Morning Double Shot newsletter, Terry Barnes had this to say:

Michael de Percy has also revisited Labor’s Mediscare 3.0 (or is it 4.0?) and labels it, with good reason, Mediscam. In that, he is perfectly right. I have some skin in the health policy game, not least around what patients pay for GP services. Given that, I predict Labor’s $9 billion GP bulk-billing boondoggle will not raise Medicare rebates high enough to tempt GPs to socialise their billings much, if any, more than they are now. It was rubbish when it was announced, it was rubbish when the Coalition stupidly ‘me-tooed’ it, and it is rubbish now.

My election coverage in The Spectator Australia, A great day for Albo’s Mediscam.

MICHAEL DE PERCY | "Every time I see Albo wave his Medicare card around, I know he is gaslighting us."
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Make no mistake, Mediscam is a way for Labor to come after more of your money. There is nothing morally superior about Medicare.https://t.co/XqLnyYMUNH

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 5, 2025

One Nation the big winner this election

Pauline Hanson's One Nation increased its primary vote this election. [Source: X]

The real winner of this election was Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Unlike the other conservative parties, Pauline stuck to her guns. She didn’t deliberately antagonise the Coalition and for the most part her preferences were directed to them.

Not like the other conservative parties who did little more than fight against the Coalition. They deserve much of the blame for Labor’s win. Working Australians would have been better off if Clive Palmer had played lawn bowls.

What we needed was a conservative leader who would fight for us. Instead, we had conservatives fighting each other. Except Pauline.

My election comment in The Spectator Australia, One Nation the big winner this election.

The real winner of this election was @PaulineHansonOz' and One Nation.

Unlike the other conservative parties, Pauline stuck to her guns. She didn’t deliberately antagonise the Coalition and for the most part her preferences were directed to them.https://t.co/oRYo5KHAZ4

— The Spectator Australia (@SpectatorOz) May 3, 2025