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The Liberal Party’s 2025 election campaign launch went off with minimal hitches yesterday, as Coalition heavyweights battled against minor audio glitches to support Peter Dutton’s vision for Australia.
Former Liberal Prime Ministers John Howard, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison, generously donated their public profiles and political capital to support join their ex-colleagues in the mission to get “Australia back on track” to what it looked like under previous Federal governments.
One former Liberal Prime Minister that was noticeably absent was the former Member for Wentworth, who’s legacy is something that the current front bench would prefer to forget, after ousting him for Scott Morrison in 2018, and in turn losing seven blue ribbon seats to female independents who would’ve probably joined the Liberal Party under Julie Bishop and Malcolm Turnbull.
With a cost-of-living crisis front of mind for voters, and a major problem in appealing to female voters, the Liberal Party is now trying to weave a needle of paying homage to these palatable right-wing figures – while also distancing themselves from them.
So with Turnbull either not invited, or unwilling to join, it’s up to the new leader Peter Dutton to now represent what a modern Liberal Party looks like.
And while Peter Dutton’s charm and dashing good looks has done wonders to win back the female voters who stopped supporting the Liberals under Morrison, the Leader Of The Opposition is now making a crack at winning back youth voters.
He’s done this with a simple and easily explained new plan that allows first home buyers to be able claim the interest from their homeloans as a tax deduction but only if they earn a certain amount and their property meets a strict list of criteria including the fact that it needs to be brand new so therefore cannot be in any suburbs that young people might have grown up in but still it’s a great way to get into the market.
The Liberal Party’s top brass were cheering as Dutton announced this new plan to tackle the housing crisis that was directly caused by the tax loopholes that John Howard gave to baby boomer property investors in the late 90s, which in turn created a hysterically manipulated housing bubble that subsequent Liberal leader staunchly defended until their respective demises at either the hands of their own ambitious colleagues, or fed up voters who can’t stand looking at them for a minute longer.
“I will be a prime minister who restores the dream of home ownership” said Peter Dutton, to a cheering crowd of well-heeled property investors and literal architects of the current housing crisis.
