In recent weeks, various polls have revealed a Coalition, but more particularly a Liberal party well and truly entrenched in an existential crisis.
In the history of Australian federal politics in the postwar era, a major party facing a disastrous defeat at the ballot box generally had time to lick its wounds and reflect on what went wrong before rebuilding to try again at the next election.
As things go from bad to worse for the Coalition, fate has decreed that they will not be granted that same time, and they are instead facing down an existential crisis like no other in the party’s eight-decade history.
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