A prominent Liberal conservative has rejected suggestions he's angling for the party leadership after a series of inflammatory social media posts.

Liberals have privately expressed frustrations at being forced to talk about themselves rather than attack Labor or build voter support, fearing they're losing more momentum after a dire May election result.

"The vast majority of the party room want to focus on a bad government that's failing the Australian people, not internal conversations," one MP said.

Distractions include speculation Western Australian MP Andrew Hastie is angling for the party leadership after publicly pushing for net-zero emissions goals to be dropped and migration to be curbed.

Among a series of social media posts linking immigration to housing shortages, Mr Hastie sa

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