Taylor Opens His Leadership With the Only Innings the Liberals Know

SMH · James Massola, Natassia Chrysanthos · Monday 13 April 2026

Taylor Opens His Leadership With the Only Innings the Liberals Know

Opposition leader Angus Taylor will use his first major policy speech to blame 'self-serving migrants' for eroding national culture, reaching for the same immigration lever every Liberal leader has pulled for thirty years.

Taylor's first major speech as opposition leader and he's grabbed the immigration bat — same one Howard swung, same one Abbott nicked to slips, grip worn smooth by three decades of identical innings. 'Self-serving migrants,' he says, about the people who built the hospitals his party defunded and drove the economy while his colleagues were arguing about statues. First time at the crease and already playing yesterday's shots.

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