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Zoe Daniel is done and dusted

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Zoe Daniel is officially the biggest Teal loser [Fourishingfood CC BY SA 4.0]

It’s been an annoying weekend for conservatives, but the weather is always warm if you wait long enough:

Zoe Daniel is gone!

Liberal MP Tim Wilson has claimed Goldstein from Simon Holmes e Whatsit’s Teal party non-party MP Zoe Daniel.

What makes the victory sweeter is that Daniel claimed victory on Saturday night.

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

For those of us disgusted with the Blue team gifting the Red team another two terms at least (hope I’m wrong on that, but it doesn’t look good), watching Liberal Tim Wilson zoom past his Teal nemesis Zoe Daniel in the Melbourne seat of Goldstein yesterday was a consolation prize. Michael de Percy celebrates Wilson’s resurrection as a tonic for conservatives but, as Wilson has always defined himself as a classical liberal, and is certainly not socially conservative, Michael should, perhaps, just welcome Wilson’s return as an intellectually-talented Liberal capable of bolstering a devastated Opposition’s denuded brainpower. Now to see whether accident-prone Monique Ryan in Kooyong and that Teal lady in Sydney’s Bradfield will join Zoe Daniel in the electoral out-tray. We certainly hope so, and that peak Teal has been passed.

Writing in the Unfiltered newsletter, Alexandra Marshall had this to say:

It is a weird point in the election process and no one is quite sure what’s going to happen in several critical seats with all the re-counts in progress. Candidates who claimed victory yesterday have found out this afternoon that they lost their seats. One of these casualties is is Teal ‘independent’ Zoe Daniel. As far as anyone can tell, she’s done and dusted – and soon to be joined by at least one more. Maybe even Greens Leader Adam Bandt. There are lots of upsets in progress – although almost none of them are likely to favour the Liberals. They were roundly thumped.

My election coverage in The Spectator Australia, Zoe Daniel is done and dusted.

Angus and Dan can save the Liberals

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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.

A great day for Albo’s Mediscam

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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.

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