The leaked review of the Liberal Party’s 2025 election defeat details campaign failures and organisational problems.

What it avoids is the harder question: What policies or direction might rebuild support.

The leaking of the Liberal Party review of its disastrous 2025 election campaign suggests the Liberals have another continuing problem – a traitor in the ranks, or perhaps more than one as different versions of the election review document were tabled by the government in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

This would be unfair to the leaker(s). They would, no doubt, insist that they want to help the Liberal Party, by ensuring that the review’s recommendations are implemented and not ignored, which seems to have been the fate of many of those from the review of the party’s loss of the 2022 election.

Most of the analysis in the latest report is of what went wrong in the disastrous campaign for the 2025 election, and how to fix those issues.

The focus inevitably is on the party leader, Peter Dutton, and what he did wrong.

Not least, according to the review, was that he and his office took over the responsibility for the campaign.

However, as the first recommendation of the version of the report tabled in the House of Representatives puts it:

“The party must never again allow the parliamentary leader and office to........

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