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Coalition infighting damaging Government, says longtime Abbott supporter Eric Abetz




Coalition infighting damaging Government, says longtime Abbott supporter Eric Abetz

23 Jul 2017,

(Translation of this article appears in Arabic section)

Liberal senator Eric Abetz says the party would be doing better in the polls if it "kept the discussion to policy rather than personality".

During the week tensions within Coalition ranks were again on display, with Treasurer Scott Morrison labelling former prime minister Tony Abbott's interventions "unhelpful".

Senator Abetz, who is a longtime supporter of Mr Abbott, said the comments were hurting the party and pointed to its consistently poor polling.

"If we kept the discussion to policy rather than personality I think the Liberal-National Party Government would be doing a lot better," he said.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott says there is as a contest between "factionalists" and "democrats" at play in the New South Wales Liberal Party.

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But Mr Abbott argued it was not a brawl involving his hard right conservative allies and the dominant moderate wing of the state Liberals, who back his successor Malcolm Turnbull.

Mr Turnbull told delegates that he supported the principle of giving members a say in preselections, which is at the heart of Mr Abbott's concerns.

Mr Abbott's motion, commonly referred to as the "Warringah motion", would allow party members to vote in preselections after two years of membership.

Liberal MPs Alex Hawke and Julian Leeser have put forward compromises, including requiring a person to have been a member for up to four years before being given voting rights, and passing an "activity test" by showing they have campaigned or handed out how to vote cards for the party.

"This is a contest between factionalists who want to keep power and democrats who want to open up our party. That is the contest," he told reporters outside the conference.

"I am very pleased that the Prime Minister and I are on the same side.

"Listen to his words today. He is an absolutely unequivocal supporter of one member, one vote."

Federal Liberal president and former New South Wales premier Nick Greiner said debate was healthy, but issued a warning.

"We have had a tradition of civility, a tradition of having robust differences in the party or in the wings and we will always have that tradition and that reality," he told delegates.

"But I do notice, it would be hard not to notice, some lack of that civility, some lack of that mutual respect.

Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott speak during the NSW Liberal Party Futures

convention in Sydney on Saturday.


 














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