The defeated Liberal-National Coalition government must reconnect with its conservative roots—and middle to lower class voters—if it hopes to regain power at the next election, according to former Queensland Premier Campbell Newman.
Newman, who quit the party last year over its support of heavy pandemic restrictions, said there was fertile electoral ground in the suburbs surrounding the major inner-city electorates across the country.
“You can’t out-green the Greens,” he told The Epoch Times. “I subscribe to the ‘doughnut theory,’ you have to imagine the cities and a five kilometre radius from the General Post Office.”
“The Liberal Party should focus on those families concerned about individual freedom, getting the kids to school, and making ends meet.”…