Alex Antic is a first-term Liberal, the kind of backbencher who's spent his time stoking culture wars on issues like trans rights and COVID policy. Antic on Monday told The Australian that gender was "a grievance narrative" and it needed to get back to its conservative roots.
Listed third behind Ruston and David Fawcett in 2019, Antic received 687 first preference votes, on a ticket that received more than 413,000.
He's made no secret of his desire to topple Ruston in the years since.
Among moderate Liberals, there's been no shortage of accusations flying around about what's been happening through the membership in recent years. And it's worth remembering that one person's branch stack is another person's membership drive.
Either way, members voted and Antic's efforts have come to fruition.
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and so another woman gets relegated while a strident conservative man takes her spot.
so what does Antic have that Ruston doesn't? hehehhaha it doesn't need saying.
so this isn't about Dutton but the party in general that women keep getting knocked off the ticket for men who are players in the game. potential power players that the conservative faction wants to push ahead.
in more plain language the Libs are continuing down the far right path and further from where they need to recover lost seats.
however I read the other day that the party (well some ing the party room) has decided the Libs don't need to win those lost seats. they expect to pick up more unskilled workers.
so Lib supporters are you happy that the Liberal Party is headed for Trump town?
