What if the Libs threw a party and nobody came?

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At The Australian today, it’s not a “what if” question:

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg struggled to get past security when he drove himself to the billionaire Pratt family mansion Raheen for a fundraiser last night.

…Last night’s event was a Liberal Party pre-election fundraiser with Melbourne’s money: a $12,000-a-head dinner hosted by the billionaire family matriarch Jeanne Pratt.

…All up, we’re told there were fewer than 100 people at the Kew mansion. That’s including the Morrison ministry.

“The Libs aren’t going to bloody win are they?” one well-connected Melbourne business person told us, explaining the lack of paying guests.

No, they are not. But surely daddy told him that you get what you pay for.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.