Liberal Party won’t publish its review into disastrous 2025 election

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-27/liberal-party-election-review-will-not-to-be-published/106398462

39 Comments

  1. Expensive-Horse5538 on

    I think the review would tell us what we already know – that they fucked up big time

  2. Cowards.

    I’ll summarise it for you.
    “We based our whole policy platform on the erroneous belief that a secret conservative silent majority exists in Australia. The resulting right-wing policy platform and comms strategy was not in touch with the values of the mainstream electorate.”

    This is advice that Angus and the rest of the leadership don’t want to hear, and as a result we’ll presumably have another cycle of an essentially absent and irrelevant opposition.

  3. WontThinkStraight on

    Party of personal responsibility taking no personal responsibility.

    Just how embarrassing must the results be? Particularly for how much blame it probably puts on Angus Taylor?

  4. Bet it implicates the current leader of being a hopeless shadow treasurer.

    Also, nothing screams insecurity more than making public your own party’s failings, in the hope of learning from your mistakes.

  5. Gutless, in so many ways. How are the Liberals supposed to learn from their mistakes if they don’t publicly acknowledge them, no matter how embarrassing those mistakes are?

  6. Allow me to summarise for you:

    *The policies we took to the last election really are the best thing for the country, we just need to communicate them better so the voting public understand how good our policies are. Now, let’s never change and all rally behind our latest, middle aged, white, male leader.*

  7. DevelopmentLow214 on

    Dutton shrivels in sunlight. Even out of office he cloaks his mediocrity in the darkness.

  8. Droll_Highwire on

    If any dissatisfied Liberal Party staffers are out there with access to this document – you could do something really really cool and leak it.

    Please, I have never wanted anything more than this.

  9. They involved people from Trumps campaign to Australia to assist with theirs – Trump is toxic in Australia and will never work here. They stated “we’ll tell you what our policies are after the election”. Just arrogance to believe Australia would accept it. Hopefully they’ve actually learnt something. 

  10. TrunkMonkey3054 on

    With their “born to rule” mentality, they are going to run the same policies / campaign at the next election – nuclear, temporary relief on fuel excise, Aukus, plus added aggression on immigration…

    So they don’t want the autopsy out there.

    They seriously believe if they say it in a convincing way the electorate will eventually swing back.

  11. Flaky-Gear-1370 on

    I can’t wait for their lurch further to the right and religious fruitcakes, because that’s surely a winner

  12. OzymandiasKingofKing on

    This is hardly a big surprise. Three of the worst performers on that campaign were Taylor (treasury), Hume (finance/work from home) and Hastie (defence/lack of policy).

    A report would point squarely at current leadership as the prime culprits.

  13. world_weary_1108 on

    Seriously how can they refuse to show something that we actually paid for. It not Asio or nat security.
    Smacks of trump style attitude to me.
    We really need to get all gov back to working for us and not against.

  14. I’m pretty sure I flushed the review this morning after having some bloody hot curry last night.

  15. Apart from what we already know about Dutton’s fuck ups, especially re: his captain’s decision on tax cuts, chances are that the broad conclusions are the same as the 2022 review – which the party ignored. You can’t win an election in Australia with a platform built on right-wing culture wars.

  16. There’s no doubt that the election review would be nothing but embarrassing for the libs and their new leaders. Aside from the personal mistakes by Taylor and Hume, one can only assume that the review would basically be a refutation of the rightward shift they’ve taken – it would say no nuclear, functional environment and climate change policy, the same integrity issues, the coalitions dwindling support with women and that harsh immigration rhetoric is damaging in multicultural Australia.

    Basically it probably recommended for them to be doing the exact opposite of their current plan, and with a new and less tainted leadership team at the helm.

  17. Ecstatic_Eye5033 on

    Obviously it’s because
    A. They don’t plan to change at all
    B. They’re so retarded they’re going to lean into the very things in the report

    Either way, they’re going to lose seats next election.

  18. No wonder. There must be a whole chapter on Angus Taylor destroying the party’s economic credibility.

  19. Unfortunate.

    >The ABC revealed earlier this year that the review had been delayed after former opposition leader Peter Dutton claimed parts of it were defamatory to him and his staff.

    Which means Dutton could not tear himself out of wet paper bag where election campaigns are concerned. Unsurprising given his level of competence in multiple ministerial positions. 

    I’m sure the review points lots of fingers at various people. Taylor (policy vacuum) and Hume (Chinese people are CCP spies!) included. 

  20. “defamatory” as it, it shows how certain people there aren’t fit to hold a job scrubbing toilets let alone run a country?

    “defamatory” as it would kill their chances of employment outside of politics?

    “defamatory” as it would show that jobs given to people like Frydenberg are given as favours, not due to skill, experience or expertise whatsoever?

    or, something else? someone enlighten me.

  21. andthegeekshall on

    How long until it’s leaked to undermine the party even further?

    Shall we say a week? Two?

  22. Of course not. How can they run the exact same tactics if they acknowledge the tactics failed

  23. rose_gold_glitter on

    >Liberal Party won’t publish its review into disastrous 2025 election

    Becuse they don’t like / agree with the result; which undoubtably says “you’re too far right and you aliented more than 50% of the population by being wildly mysognistic”.

    They didn’t want to hear that because they want to double down on everything they did that was unpopular, and besides, Peta Credlin say they lost because a trans woman played sport one time, and everyone knows Credlin really has her finger on the pulse of the nation.