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For the last two Federal Elections, the Liberal Party's post-mortem reviews have been effectively the same.
Specifically outlined in both the 2022 and 2025 election reviews was the fact that Australia's centre-right can no longer rely on the post-war 'Howard's Battlers' voting block to deliver them a majority government.
Gone are the days where working and middle class baby boomers made up the most dominant cohort of Australian voters. They have since been replaced by a younger and more culturally varied generation.
For the Liberal Party, elections were indeed a lot easier when all they needed to do was defeat Labor in the battle to win over single income families that still occasionally spent their Sundays at an Anglican or Catholic church.
Back before suburban mums even worked, let alone before they had to worry about things like childcare and work-from-home policies, the metropolitan female voter usually voted the same way as the man of the house.
Nowadays, as the data shows, it seems that rich tapestry of cultural fault-lines have emerged in the Australian electorate.
And if it wasn't made abundantly clear by the last two Labor election victories, the Liberal Party's old system of race-baiting and benevolent chauvinism is not quite working as well as it used to.
Especially considering the fact that in 2026, less than 1 in 4 voters are Australian-born to Australian-born parents.
This means the vast majority of the nation is either first or second generation migrants, and not all of them came from the United Kingdom like Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard.
In fact, some of them have come from countries that don't even recognise the Queen of England, or the teachings of the King James Bible.
It's for this reason that Federal Opposition leader Angus Taylor has had to gently explained to his ever-shrinking party room that it will not be easy for them to win government if Coalition MPs constantly keep vocalising which races of people they do not like, and would wish to see less of.
Taylor believes this may serve as a hindrance to getting elected, as a lot of voters identify as the many races of people that are constantly being highlighted by Liberal MPs as unwelcome in this country that many of them migrated to when the Liberal Party was in power.
Taylor says it's just a hunch, but he feels that these races of people will be unlikely to vote for the party who keeps saying that they don't like them, and will instead vote for the party who doesn't say anything about them at all.
