The Liberals got absolutely smashed at two elections in a row, are bleeding voters in every city, and have lost basically an entire generation… so naturally they've decided to dust off Tony Abbott like he's some kind of vintage find at an op shop.
Nothing screams "we've learned absolutely nothing" like handing the wheel to the bloke who turned the party into a fossil fuel appreciation society and a permanent Sky News comment section. Even Advance got sick of him eventually.
This isn't a rebuild. It's a retirement village for ideas that stopped working in 2013, where every problem gets solved with more fear campaigns, more anti-woke carry-on, and more pretending it's still the Howard era.
They've already lost women, young people, cities, moderates, and basically anyone under 60 who reads something other than The Australian. And the answer they've landed on is: "maybe what we need is… more Tony Abbott?"
Mate. Electoral self-immolation usually takes a bit longer than this.





