A Liberal split isn't just viable, it's necessary

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Liberal Senator James Paterson (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Senator James Paterson offers the right diagnosis but the wrong solution about the travails of the Liberal Party. Most likely, he’s not actually able to offer the right solution.

In his speech at the Tom Hughes Oration last night , Paterson — after correctly noting that the Albanese government’s war against transparency was the stuff of third-world autocracies (while skipping that his own side was no better and often even worse) — suggested:

The truth is even with these abuses of power, it is not within Anthony Albanese or the Labor Party’s ability to become the natural party of government federally. Only the Liberal Party’s failure will