Strip away the pinball machines and photo booth props at Cpac, and the scale of Ley’s challenge in simply keeping the Coalition alive, let alone making it competitive again, becomes clear

Strip away the pinball machines and photo booth props at Cpac, and the scale of Ley’s challenge in simply keeping the Coalition alive, let alone making it competitive again, becomes clear * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Aside from one crude caricature distributed in the crowd, Liberal leader Sussan Ley’s name was almost entirely absent from the rightwing Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane. But stripping away the sideshow attractions – Pauline Hanson’s pinball machine, George Christensen’s photo booth props – the thread running through the two-day event was the challenge Ley has to simply hold her party together amid a volatile fracturing of the conservative landscape, let alone for the Coalition to be competitive again. Continue reading...

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Liberal leader later clarifies she doesn’t support setting targets while in opposition Liberal leader Sussan Ley has indicated the Coalition won’t set a 2030 or 2035 climate target unless they one day return to government, saying her colleagues didn’t back locking in an emissions goal while they remained in opposition. It came as Ley had to clean up her own error, claiming she “misspoke” after initially saying her party “don’t believe in setting targets at all from opposition or from government”. She later clarified she only meant in opposition, prompting ridicule from Anthony Albanese who claimed the opposition “changes its policies from hour to hour”. Continue reading...

Liberal leader later clarifies she doesn’t support setting targets while in opposition

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