“I Don't Want To Make An Enemy Out Of Pauline” Says Man That Had Her Thrown In Prison For Electoral Fraud

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The Liberal Party has elected a new national president in the shape of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

Despite not being able to keep a party unified long enough to finish a full term as PM, Abbott has vowed to win voters back to the Coalition by returning the Federal Opposition to their former glory as an unashamed and strong conservative brand.

Abbott says the aim of his return to politics is to help Liberal Leader Angus Taylor turn things around, as the Coalition continues to bleed thousands of voters and dozens of Federal electorates from both the moderate and conservative ends of their voter base.

His comments came after a poll on Monday showed that One Nation has now surpassed Labor to become the country’s most popular political party, with the Coalition slipping further. If an election was held tomorrow, the Liberal's rural Coalition partners in the National Party would not win one seat.

The new Redbridge Group/Accent Research pol shows One Nation at 31 per cent compared to Labor at 28 per cent and the Coalition on 20 per cent.

That was a rise of four points in favour of One Nation, which is understandable after Labor’s reform-heavy May budget caused an immediate cooling of house prices, which obviously means that the nation's baby boomer property investor class have immediately chosen to support the most radical populist political alternative available to them.

Meanwhile, nearly a dozen former blue-ribbon inner-city Liberal electorates, including Tony Abbott's old seat, remain firmly in the hands of Independent MPs who have found success offering a moderate alternative to the relentless culture wars of a Sky News era Coalition.

Abbott has little to say about this particular phenomena that has all but exstinguished the Liberal Party's chances of ever regaining power, but he has commented on the rise of One Nation.

“I’m not disparaging someone who has been around and has shown a lot of resilience and consistency over the years" said the man that bankrolled witnesses to testify against Pauline Hanson in 2003 after setting up a controversial $100,000 legal fund to deregister the One Nation party at the height of their power, ultimately leading to Pauline Hanson spending 11 weeks in the clink with notorious murderers and con artists for electoral fraud, before being acquitted.

The Liberal Party has elected a new national president in the shape of former Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

Despite not being able to keep a party unified long enough to finish a full term as PM, Abbott has vowed to win voters back to the Coalition by returning the Federal Opposition to their former glory as an unashamed and strong conservative brand.

Abbott says the aim of his return to politics is to help Liberal Leader Angus Taylor turn things around, as the Coalition continues to bleed thousands of voters and dozens of Federal electorates from both the moderate and conservative ends of their voter base.

His comments came after a poll on Monday showed that One Nation is now Australia's most popular political party, with the Coalition slipping further. If an election was held tomorrow, the Liberal's rural Coalition partners in the National Party would not win one seat.

That was a rise of four points in favour of One Nation, which is understandable after Labor’s reform-heavy May budget caused an immediate cooling of house prices, which obviously means that the nation's baby boomer property investor class have immediately chosen to support the most radical populist political alternative available to them.

Meanwhile, nearly a dozen former blue-ribbon inner-city Liberal electorates, including Tony Abbott's old seat, remain firmly in the hands of Independent MPs who have found success offering a moderate alternative to the relentless culture wars of a Sky News era Coalition.

Abbott has little to say about this particular phenomena that has all but exstinguished the Liberal Party's chances of ever regaining power, but he has commented on the rise of One Nation.

“I’m not disparaging someone who has been around and has shown a lot of resilience and consistency over the years" said the man that bankrolled witnesses to testify against Pauline Hanson in 2003 after setting up a controversial $100,000 legal fund to deregister the One Nation party at the height of their power, ultimately leading to Pauline Hanson spending 11 weeks in the clink with notorious murderers and con artists for electoral fraud, before being acquitted.