Grattan on Friday: the zeitgeist doesn’t suit Angus Taylor but he could do more to help himself

Michelle Grattan writes in the Conversation that Liberal leader Angus Taylor faces two major challenges. The first is his own fumbling: he gets caught without answers and retreats into slogans instead of engaging directly—like calling his One Nation criticism made 'with a heavy heart' after initially being robust. The second is deeper: the Liberals are pitching smaller government and lower taxes, but voters, shaped by pandemic-era thinking, now want activist government. This ideological mismatch is far harder to fix than media coaching, and Grattan suggests it may be unbridgeable in the short term.

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