Moderates and many conservatives in the Liberal Party united to block former vice president Teena McQueen from the party’s federal executive, in a move viewed by some as vital to the future direction of the party.
The hard-right figure’s unsuccessful re-election bid comes as Liberal leader Peter Dutton warned there were three threats to liberalism and his party, which included housing affordability and the dwindling rates of home ownership.Credit:Liberal members have gathered in Canberra over the weekend for the party’s federal council, electing the executive and voting on key policy motions.
A significant portion of conservatives joined moderates in the party to block McQueen’s re-election bid. Moderates last year called for McQueen to resign after she said members should “rejoice” that “lefties” in the party had lost their seats at the last federal election., according to three senior Liberal women at a meeting to discuss a new code of conduct in the party’s NSW division.
Victorian Liberal figure Sali Miftari said Liberals from across the nation had “taken the decisive step to reject Teena McQueen’s divisive, out of touch and frankly wrong campaign to join the federal executive of our party”.Dutton warned party members on Saturday that there were three main internal threats to liberalism and democracy: left-of-centre governments not giving up the power they assumed during the COVID-19 pandemic, falling home ownership rates and identity politics.
But Dutton told party members to ignore media commentators who said the Liberals would not able to make a comeback from their current situation in which they don’t have a single state or federal government outside of Tasmania.
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