Julian Leeser urges Coalition colleagues to avoid ‘red Trumpian hats’ and ‘political diet of anger’

Liberal moderate claims party has not fully grasped its electoral challenges following 2022 election defeat

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The Liberal MP Julian Leeser has urged his colleagues to avoid the “fringes” of debate like the CPAC conservative conference, telling a party function the Coalition’s future should not be in “red Trumpian hats or a political diet of anger”.

The Liberal moderate, who is a supporter of the Indigenous voice to parliament, said the Liberal party needed to spend more time focusing on middle Australia, and claimed the organisation had not yet fully grasped the electoral challenges it faces following the 2022 election defeat.

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