Liberal party executive agrees to permanently bury review into catastrophic 2025 election defeat

Party says ‘what’s important now is that we strengthen our party for the future’ but some MPs concerned they will not learn from loss

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Gina Rinehart’s company donated almost $900k to rightwing group Advance, political donations data shows

Clive Palmer’s Minerology was the single biggest political donor in 2024-25, giving $53.1m to Trumpet of Patriots, which failed to win a seat

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Decoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount | Simon Jackman https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/21/ai-bradfield-recount-handwriting-australian-election-boele-kapterian #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Australianelection2025 #Australianpolitics #Law(Australia) #Australianews #Liberalparty
Decoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount

Voters deserve to know the fight between Gisele Kapterian and Nicolette Boele is being resolved with the fairness integral to Australian elections

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Good grief. I hope the LNP learn the correct lessons from this loss, accept the science of climate change and move towards the centre.

I hope this because Labor are hopeless milquetoasts who triangulate themselves 0.5% to the left of the LNP, so the only way they’ll do what is required is if the LNP move leftwards.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/04/sweeping-policy-reset-needed-to-reconnect-with-voters-senior-liberals-say-as-others-call-for-lurch-further-right #Australianelection2025

Sweeping policy reset needed to reconnect with voters, senior Liberals say – as others call for lurch further right

Simon Birmingham backs quotas to preselect women, while Alex Antic says it’s time to make the party great again

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Looks like the Tories may not be the only party to lose their leader tonight. #australianelection2025 #australiavotes #auspol
And here comes Jacinta Price with the Dolchstoßlegend for the Tories’ loss; stay classy… #australiavotes #auspol #australianelection2025
And the Dickson pre-poll votes have come in and they lean Labor. Looks like the Potato has been Polievred. #australiavotes #australianelection2025 #PolievreThePotato #auspol