Election 2022 (Poll added)

[LP]

There was some schadenfreude in watching Frydenberg lose his safe seat after he submitted totally to hard right control of his party. But it would probably have been far better for Australia if he'd held his seat and was able to return the Liberal Party its more moderate roots.

I completely concur, I'm not really one or the other, but what we have today is quite possibly worse than before because of the Teal and other minority factions.

The question for me for the next election is simply this, is Teal the real deal, will the Coalition loss allow more moderates to exit the closet or are they still scared to ruffle the fundamentalist rule?

I believe there is a laziness about this result, a complete lack of fight on the Coalition side to preserve their basic ethos has cost them dearly. They took the low road and thought bashing the ALP was all they needed to do to win, despite years of nearly no demonstrable action on so many major federal issues. I suspect Teal is born of a dissatisfaction with this recent history, too much of the coalition leaving it to fate!