I can’t recall an LNP rump that is this paralytically stupid. Crikey:
Here’s a list of words Liberal MP Julian Leeser has been called for quitting the frontbench over the party’s opposition to the Voice to Parliament that he worked on for a decade: “confused”, one-half of two possible “useful idiots”, “incoherent”, (Janet Albrechtsen in The Australian ($)) “a quitter, a wrecker and a hypocrite” (Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun), “never the right person” for his portfolios, and “clear as mud” about his position (Peta Credlin in The Australian ($)). Yep, conservative commentators are livid, but Leeser seems wholly undeterred. Speaking to Guardian Australia, the former Indigenous Affairs minister says his party’s proposal for symbolic Indigenous recognition in the constitution is “not enough”. Most of the laws and programs for Indigenous folks are run at the state and territory level, and most of the challenges are at the local level, Leeser says — that’s why we need the local and regional voices. Leeser adds that the Coalition may have agreed to the Voice proposal if “we’d followed the Calma-Langton roadmap“.
It’s not Julian Leeser. It’s Ken Wyatt, Andrew Bragg, Sussan Ley, Bridget Archer, Jeremy Rockliff, Simon Birmingham, a cast of others, and much of the rest of Australia.
Choosing this hill to die on is a catastrophically bad political judgment. All the bullying in the world won’t change what is, in essence, a feelgood bipartisan issue.
What is so strange about the suicide is that it is letting Albo get away with blue murder on every other LNP-fortified hill: China groveling; lunatic immigration; free-falling real wages; crashing living standards; nanny state budget ruin.
Even more bizarrely, these are the traditional strengths of new leader Peter Dutton!
Dutton is a dead man walking.
