
Aston By-election Explained
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The Victorian Liberal Party's Playing on the Fringes
The Victorian Liberal Party has been playing on the fringes for a long time. The party is being told by its media backers to focus on value issues, whether it's transgender kids or denying climate change. And now that those chickens are coming home to roost, and it is electoral catastrophe. You get the red hot button issues in Australian politics, climate change, women in politics, and anti-corruption commission, this bizarre obsession with bathrooms. They are not issues that dominate actually the labor, liberal divide. It's not whether or not you think any of those things are right or wrong. They're fighting about those things.
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