• In August 2017, Jensen sent an email to former Liberal colleagues, saying he had joined the Australian Conservatives party started by Cory Bernardi, and urging them to follow him. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Liberal candidate for Warringah , Katherine Deves, is standing firm against calls for her to withdraw after her social media accounts turned up considerably more radical commentary on transgender issues than suggested by the initial promotion of her as a campaigner for strict definitions of sex in women's sport. (pollbludger.net)
  • It's been a gut-wrenching fortnight for Liberal Party supporters watching the vilification of Moira Deeming, who, through no fault of her own, became a story of John Pesutto's making when he tied her in with Nazis who gate crashed the Let Women's Speak rally in Melbourne. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • Steadfast 2022 federal LNP candidate, Katherine Deves commended Moira for defending 'women's sex-based rights, child safeguarding and common sense. (caldronpool.com)
  • Jensen lost Liberal preselection for the 2016 federal election, and subsequently resigned from the party to stand as an independent. (wikipedia.org)
  • Jensen lost Liberal preselection in Tangney for the 2016 federal election. (wikipedia.org)
  • Political tragics will know it is not unprecedented - Malcolm Turnbull won the seat of Wentworth by stacking the branches and knocking off sitting member Peter King, in what was one of the most bitter internal party stoushes in Liberal history. (lyleshelton.com.au)
  • On September 14, 2015, the Communications Minister and former Liberal leader, Malcolm Turnbull, resigned from Abbott's ministry and launched a challenge to Abbott's leadership. (australianpolitics.com)
  • The most famous female victim of feminist sex laws is Mary Kay Letourneau. (blogspot.com)
  • The Mary Kay Letourneau story is a triumph of love over feminism, so compelling that the media has trouble siding with feminist sex-hostility. (blogspot.com)
  • The mainstream media usually presents unadulterated feminist sex-hostility with wholehearted hatred, without any room for doubting that they really mean it. (blogspot.com)
  • Thankfully, I count some of these sane people among my readers, so kudos to you, but the rest of society is hopelessly brainwashed by feminist sex-hostility. (blogspot.com)
  • Pesutto has been touted as the great hope for the Victorian Liberal Party ever since he lost his seat in Hawthorn to Labor in 2018. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • He was elected to the House of Representatives at the 2004 federal election, winning the Division of Tangney for the Liberal Party. (wikipedia.org)
  • Former party state director Ben Morton won preselection. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today has been a tremendous honour and a great privilege, with the confidence invested in me by local party branch members, and I will work my hardest to make a compelling case as the Liberal candidate for Monash at the next election,' she said. (abc.net.au)
  • Ms Aldred said her father, Ken Aldred, who represented the Liberal Party at a federal level in three different electorates over the course of 20 years, would have been happy with the result. (abc.net.au)
  • Russell Broadbent is seen as a maverick in the Liberal Party. (abc.net.au)
  • Mr Broadbent has been a maverick in the Liberal Party, known to take his own position and not follow party lines. (abc.net.au)
  • Fellow Liberal party members have been, uh, less than impressed with the book's content. (pedestrian.tv)
  • This is a big story and it goes to the heart of the struggle for the soul of the Liberal National Party. (lyleshelton.com.au)
  • 5. One of these assertions about Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott is false. (newmatilda.com)
  • Liberal Party candidate for Indi Steve Martin at a candidates' forum in Wodonga. (nofibs.com.au)
  • Indi Liberal Party candidate Steve Martin's belief in the science behind human-induced climate change is in serious doubt after giving a series of conflicting answers to questions on the issue as the federal election approaches. (nofibs.com.au)
  • I have to correct you on the fact that the AEC and the police do think they are not a part of the legal democratic process and are investigating their illegal activities relating to anti-Green advertising and connection to Liberal Party, and not declairing who finaned them. (pollbludger.net)
  • Family First certainly falls between the Liberal Party and the Labor Party on the political spectrum. (pollbludger.net)
  • I would rate both Family First and the Greens ahead of the Liberal Party, but I may be unusual in that. (pollbludger.net)
  • The Guardian reports a Community Engagement poll for Climate 200 in North Sydney found independent Kylea Tink, whose campaign Climate 200 is supporting, with 19.4% of the primary vote to Liberal member Trent Zimmerman's 37.1%, with Labor on 17.3%, the Greens on 8.7%, the United Australia Party on 5.6% and others on 3.8%, with 8.2% undecided. (pollbludger.net)
  • He first served as parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party and as opposition leader from 2008 to 2009, and became parliamentary leader and Prime Minister after defeating Tony Abbott at the 2015 Liberal leadership spill. (alchetron.com)
  • Turnbull is considered to be a part of the moderate wing of the Liberal Party, with his views on issues such as climate change, republicanism, same-sex marriage and abortion differing from the conservative wing. (alchetron.com)
  • Of course the Liberal Party has a factional problem. (australiafirstparty.net)
  • Wrong: the Liberal Party is just as factional, albeit in a looser sense, and just as tribal, if not more so. (australiafirstparty.net)
  • In Victoria, where it was an integral part of the establishment, the Liberal Party was more electorally successful. (australiafirstparty.net)
  • New South Wales was the most reluctant of the states to come on board when Robert Menzies, a Victorian, sought to merge various conservative and anti-Labor groups into a new Liberal Party in the mid 1940s. (australiafirstparty.net)
  • Self-described as a progressive and modern Liberal, his backers carried high expectations that he would unite the Liberal Party and lead them out of the political wilderness into government. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • Perhaps the fact that there is very little blue in Pesutto's teal values is why members of the Liberal Party never backed him into parliament. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • The Liberal Party is facing an identity crisis. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • Once jewels in the Liberal Party crown, the wealthy middle-class electorates of Melbourne are no longer occupied by rusted-on Liberal voters but woke upper middle management and bureaucrats. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • The very same people today's Liberal Party in Victoria grovels to appease. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • So long as the Liberal Party pursues the woke vote, they will continue to alienate their base and leave them swinging in political limbo for decades more to come. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • The election was Abbott's second as leader of the Liberal Party. (australianpolitics.com)
  • Disquiet over Prime Minister Abbott's leadership led to an attempt to bring on a Liberal Party leadership spill on February 9, 2015. (australianpolitics.com)
  • In comments on the LNP's pre-selection of Councillor Deeming, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, read from the same vacuous script, stating , "I'm not here to comment on the Liberal Party and some of the transphobic, homophobic and frankly, unVictorian kind of hatred. (caldronpool.com)
  • Liberal senator Eric Abetz has called on his party colleagues to accept compromise and support the Religious Discrimination bill that was introduced into parliament by Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Thursday. (outinperth.com)
  • The story in early reports suggested that someone, allegedly linked to the Liberal National Party (LNP), heard it at a preview, and protested, and that resulted in it being cut. (hushhushbiz.com)
  • It's got NSW Liberal Party and Party donor corruption written all over it. (jimball.com.au)
  • Five days later Liberal Party donor and property developer Multiplex started securing contracts with stakeholders at the fish market. (jimball.com.au)
  • In the face of the totalitarian nature of multiculturalism, as promoted by the Liberal and Labor parties, the Australian Protectionist Party intends to provide a third force in Australian politics and bring proper democracy back to the people. (protectionist.net)
  • John Howard became Australia's 25th prime minister when the Liberal Party won office, replacing the Labor government led by Paul Keating. (moadoph.gov.au)
  • He did not win the seat, but went on in 1972 to become vice-president of the state Liberal Party and work on Billy McMahon's election campaign. (moadoph.gov.au)
  • In 2006, Jensen lost his preselection for Tangney for the 2007 federal election, but won it back with the support of the state executive and prime minister John Howard. (wikipedia.org)
  • He is opposed to same-sex marriage in Australia. (wikipedia.org)
  • When John McVeigh voted 'yes' in parliament for same-sex marriage he acted against this clear commitment and in doing so betrayed the trust of Groom LNP members. (lyleshelton.com.au)
  • Putting aside momentarily the issue of same-sex marriage, Moody's grievance goes to the heart of why so many Australians are disappointed and disillusioned with politicians. (lyleshelton.com.au)
  • The battle for marriage was lost over ten years as conservative politicians vacated the field while the Greens, Labor and Liberal left politicians relentlessly argued in public for change. (lyleshelton.com.au)
  • As a group unit, the Coalition parties failed to protect freedom of speech and religion as one of their own Senators, Dean Smith, shepherded through Parliament a same-sex marriage bill that leaves the freedoms of five million Australians trashed. (lyleshelton.com.au)
  • d) He is the first Australian prime minister to publicly support same-sex marriage. (newmatilda.com)
  • His messaging on matters such as same sex marriage, with the infamous 'two rams' quip, may well have hit the mark in some rural corners of his seat, but was not viewed favourably in the larger urban centres such as Mildura and Horsham. (farmonline.com.au)
  • Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has described supporters of marriage equality and the most intolerant people during last year's marriage postal survey debate. (outinperth.com)
  • With the possible exception of the party's permanently cleaved branch in South Australia, no other part of the Liberal family is so engaged in seemingly endless civil war as the NSW branch. (australiafirstparty.net)
  • The Liberal Party's base is in the suburbs and most impacted by the woke socialist ideology of Australia's ruling elite. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • Liberal senator Eric Abetz has been demoted to the third spot on the party's senate ticket at the next election. (outinperth.com)
  • Pesutto ran for preselection multiple times and lost before the Administrative Committee appointed him to the seat of Hawthorn in 2014 over conservative John Roskam. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • Jensen was the Liberal candidate for the Division of Corio, Victoria at the 1998 election. (wikipedia.org)
  • He lost preselection again for the 2010 election, but once again the state executive intervened and restored him as Liberal candidate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mr Broadbent has held the safe Liberal seat of Monash for the last 19 years, but at the last election, his margin fell to 2.9 per cent. (abc.net.au)
  • A report in The Guardian identifying electorates targeted with the most in "election campaign promises and discretionary grants" since the start of the year had Bass leading the field, with the marginal Labor-held New South Wales seats of Gilmore , Dobell and Hunter high on the list, alongside the seemingly safe Liberal seats of Canning , Durack and Forrest in Western Australia. (pollbludger.net)
  • Turnbull failed to gain Liberal preselection for the Division of Wentworth in New South Wales, prior to the 1981 by-election and again prior to the 2001 federal election. (alchetron.com)
  • Following the defeat of the Liberal government at the 2007 federal election, Turnbull declared himself a candidate in the subsequent leadership election, but lost to Brendan Nelson by three votes. (alchetron.com)
  • However, at the closest federal majority result since the 1961 election, the Liberal/National Coalition retained majority government by a single seat. (alchetron.com)
  • Howard became president of the New South Wales Young Liberals and won pre-selection for the state seat of Drummoyne in 1968. (moadoph.gov.au)
  • He was one of six Liberal MPs (including fellow West Australian MPs Wilson Tuckey, Luke Simpkins and the late Don Randall as well as Peter Dutton, Sophie Mirabella and the late Alby Schultz) to leave the house (or boycott entirely) in protest to the apology to the Stolen Generations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conversely, Greg Brown of The Australian reports the Liberals concede a more modest drop in Frydenberg's primary vote from 47% to 44% over the past three months. (pollbludger.net)
  • Photos is also the mover and shaker and head of the controlling faction of the NSW State Liberals with major leverage when it comes to preselection. (jimball.com.au)
  • To win a preselection, candidates must win 50 per cent of the vote plus one. (abc.net.au)
  • In what should have been a resounding victory for David Cameron in 2010 instead had to be secured through an uncomfortable coalition deal with the Liberal Democrats to avoid the stasis of a hung parliament. (quadrant.org.au)
  • Victorian Liberal preselection candidate Nigel Gohl has dropped out of the race for the seat of Prahran after a book he wrote in 2005 titled ' Around The World In 80 Babes ' resurfaced. (pedestrian.tv)
  • A uComms poll conducted for independent Kooyong candidate Monique Ryan credits her with a credulity-straining 59-41 lead over Liberal incumbent Josh Frydenberg. (pollbludger.net)
  • Preselection for the federal seat of Melbourne is expected to be uncontested with the left fielding only one candidate. (melbcity.net.au)
  • Liberal senator Eric Abetz has described the Religious Discrimination Bill a "shemozzle", saying people of faith in Australia were better off with nothing that the bill that was before the senate. (outinperth.com)
  • Long-serving MP for the federal seat of Monash Russell Broadbent has lost his preselection battle to Mary Aldred, a government relations executive at Fujitsu. (abc.net.au)
  • Mr Zahra remained in the seat for six years before Mr Broadbent won the seat back in 2004 - after a redistribution removed Morwell and Traralgon from the electorate, turning McMillan into a marginal Liberal seat. (abc.net.au)
  • The $15,000 spend on Josh Frydenberg's campaign in Kooyong is around triple that of any other Liberal seat. (pollbludger.net)
  • Liberal senator Eric Abetz has called for an investigation into Rugby Australia's decision to terminate the contract of player Israel Folau over his social media posts. (outinperth.com)
  • The bad news is, as usual, Australia's Liberal National government who, despite the fact they seem to be wanting to take credit for being part of this deal, despite Julie Bishop's smiling face being plastered all over the positive news stories about the Paris conference, are actually the exact opposite of helpful. (theaimn.com)
  • The Abbott government assumed office on September 18, 2013, following the decisive victory of the Liberal-Nationals Coalition. (australianpolitics.com)
  • Howard's time came again in 1995 when he was returned as Liberal leader. (moadoph.gov.au)
  • Meanwhile, the self-employed white-collar professionals, small business owners and tradesmen no longer identify with the Liberals who have been subsumed by big corporations and big government. (womensforumaustralia.org)
  • The fact that girls are evolved to reach full reproductive competence at 11-13 years of age (along with the psychosocial maturation necessary to function as an adult in a primitive society), and did so in the Old Stone Age as well as now (only interrupted by periods of poor nutrition in between), sets the bar of skepticism astronomically high to any claim that sex with teenagers is inherently abusive. (blogspot.com)
  • He left Canterbury Boys' High School in 1956 to study law at the University of Sydney and joined the Young Liberal Movement in 1962. (moadoph.gov.au)
  • I will bet that more than 50 percent of those sex scenes would qualify as "sexual harassment", if not sexual assault, if committed by a gamma or omega male. (blogspot.com)
  • So I sure hope there is no sex with a "live boy or a dead girl" in your past Barack, because if there is, it's coming out. (blogspot.com)
  • I'm proud to come from a strong Liberal family,' she said. (abc.net.au)
  • not necessarily the best sex he ever had, but liberating enough to be remembered for years to come. (0509.org)