The coalition is coming to terms with their decisive election loss last night. Former New South Wales Liberal Minister Michael Yabsley is calling for a foundational review of the party's priorities.
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00:00By any measure, it's an absolute walloping, but there are reasons for it, and it would
00:09be an understatement to say that what the Liberal Party needs to do is to now go through
00:14some soul-searching, but you can't just pay lip service to the soul-searching.
00:19This has got to be a fair dinkum root-and-branch review so the cracks aren't papered over,
00:29which is what has tended to happen in the past.
00:32I actually think it has got more to do with the Liberal Party machine, which I contend
00:39is no longer a machine and has not been a machine for a long time.
00:44What I mean by that is a Liberal Party organisation, and this is something that I believe is largely
00:51ignored and provides not the whole of the explanation, but at least a significant part
00:58of the explanation that accounts for the sort of result that happened last night.
01:03So a Liberal Party machine, or a party machine if it is operating properly, needs to be able
01:10to recruit members, it needs to be able to fundraise, it needs to be able to develop policy,
01:17and it needs to be able to conduct pre-selections of candidates who stand the best chance of winning.
01:23They are what I would describe as the Liberal Party's KPIs, and those KPIs, the truth is,
01:31the inescapable truth is, that they have been miserably failed over a long period of time,
01:39and they are the home truths that need to be faced up to.
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