7 h. ago Liberal Party bails out John Pesutto, agreeing to $1.5m loan

The party’s governing board has agreed to lend John Pesutto $1.55 million to settle his legal bill with colleague Moria Deeming.

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3 d. ago Liberals firm on dumping Victorian elders after ‘assertive women’ comments

The Liberal Party’s federal executive will meet on Tuesday to consider the fate of the NSW division. Sources said the two Victorians in charge would be replaced.

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7 d. ago Pesutto offered $1 million by Deeming backer to swear off leadership

The offer, if accepted by John Pesutto would have given property developer Hilton Grugeon a financial mortgage over the Victorian Liberal Party leadership.

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1 week ago Time to pay the Deeming debt and focus on the job of opposition

If the Liberal Party wants to move towards the voters it seeks to represent it may need to open its wallet.

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1 week ago He stopped women joining the Australian Club. Now he’s rewriting the NSW Liberals’ rules

Retired Federal Court judge Peter Graham, KC, blocked women from joining the Australian Club. Now he is rewriting the NSW Liberal Party’s rules.

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2 w. ago Foot in the mouth elder statesman has done the Liberals no favour

Alan Stockdale, a former Liberal federal president and Victorian treasurer brought in to reform the NSW party should head south after his gormless words about Liberal women.

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2 w. ago ‘A sexist man’: Catley slams Speakman after he calls her ‘hysterical’

The NSW Liberal leader made the comments on the same day he slammed a Victorian party elder for claiming Liberal women were “sufficiently assertive”.

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2 w. ago ‘Nobody cares about the Liberals’: Party elder’s message to women

Alan Stockdale, one of a trio of external administrators running the NSW Liberals, angered female members during a four-hour Zoom briefing on Tuesday night.

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2 w. ago ‘Money can be replaced’: Kennett urges Liberal Party to pay up and save John Pesutto

In a last-minute intervention, former premier Jeff Kennett has written to the Victorian Liberal Party leadership, telling them to intervene and cover Pesutto’s $2.3 million legal bill. 

Economics

2 w. ago Coalition of the unwilling: Climate wars will soon eclipse reunification relief

The climate wars are over. And the Coalition lost. But it will have great difficulty in accepting this fact and that’s a particular problem for the Liberal Party.

Events

2 w. ago Australia news As it Happened: NT Police chief rejects McCarthy’s call for independent death in custody probe; Ley farewells mother; Marles meets US defence secretary Pete Hegseth in Singapore

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Events

2 w. ago ‘The entire party is imploding’: Groth, Pesutto, Deeming turning Liberal headache into a migraine

Opposition Leader Brad Battin was putting out multiple spot fires on Friday as his deputy defended a chauffeured ride home, and a deadline loomed in the saga threatening to bankrupt a former leader.

Society

2 w. ago Australia news LIVE: NT Police chief rejects McCarthy’s call for independent death in custody probe; Ley farewells mother; Marles meets US defence secretary Pete Hegseth in Singapore

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Events

2 w. ago Australia news LIVE: Marles meets US defence secretary Pete Hegseth in Singapore; Woodside protests continue; Ley farewells mother

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2 w. ago Australia news LIVE: CBA app money transfers unavailable after outage; war crimes probe’s surprise raids

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2 w. ago Australia news LIVE: Commonwealth’s partial app outage; Ley farewells late mother; War crimes probe’s surprise raids

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2 w. ago Australia news LIVE: Ley farewells late mother; Abbott demands Ley clean up Liberal party; War crimes probe’s surprise raids

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2 w. ago Australia news LIVE: Abbott demands Ley clean up Liberal party; War crimes probe’s surprise raids

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Events

3 w. ago This Liberal talk about aspiration is code for something else

Readers question where the future of the Liberal Party lies, and how trees should fit in with suburban life.

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3 w. ago Jason Falinski: The Libs should reconcile with the Nats. Just not yet

If the Liberal Party doesn’t develop polices for their natural constituencies in the big cities, it will be “completely lost”, according to former MP for Mackellar.

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