Fury in the Liberal Party meant there was no time for protection rackets

March 3, 2026 — 3:29pm

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The official review of the catastrophic 2025 election was always going to leak. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor was foolish, and or naive in the extreme, to think that it could be kept secret.

It was a grave error of judgment, both politically and morally, to even contemplate that it should be withheld.

White-hot anger erupted inside the parliamentary party and the party more broadly after the federal executive on Friday, at Taylor’s urging, decided almost unanimously to try to cover up the reasons for a defeat which Taylor on Monday described in magnificent understatement as “a bad........

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