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Political snippets: Another one from that Liberal playbook

Some good old fashioned “wasting taxpayer dollars!” outrage at the Oz, the Victorian Liberal Party goes into early election mode, Obama’s brother writes a book, and why green is the new religion.

Judith Troeth one of the last of the reasonable members of the coalition

Yesterday Judith Troeth spoke eloquently about the need for the Liberal Party to come to terms with the damage it did to thousands of people who sought asylum in this country, a contrasting view to most of her colleagues.

Baillieu’s Liberals not keen on new blood

The real scandal surrounding Victorian Liberal pre-selections is not in the challenges, it’s in the almost total lack of them.

The battle for Higgins resumes

The Higgins preselection has been an on-again, off-again saga.

Who wants to be a Liberal MP?

It’s time to clear some dead wood from the Victorian Liberal Party, writes Charles Richardson.

Rundle: Robert Doyle’s taxi of fools

Robert Doyle’s taxi scheme is a mad idea, an expression of the fear of the boring suburbanite has for the city, writes Guy Rundle.

Constitutional revolution for the Victorian Liberals

Will giving more voice to ordinary members just hand power to conservative ideologues asks Charles Richardson.

It takes two to make a factional conflict

There’s nothing like an election defeat to bring party disunity into the open. Hence Stateline in Victoria led on Friday night with a trenchant attack by Senator Judith Troeth on her opponents in the state’s Liberal Party, the controlling Kroger-Costello group, writes Charles Richardson.