I dumped the Libs and the left-right drudgery. Voters simply ask: What will make us better?

SMH · Charlotte Mortlock · Sunday 3 May 2026

I dumped the Libs and the left-right drudgery. Voters simply ask: What will make us better?

Australians don’t care about ideology. They want solutions that will work. I have a plan.

Mortlock's discovered that voters want things to work. Hold the front page. Every bloke who's ever quit a party has written this same column — Latham wrote it, Palmer wrote it, Lambie wrote it. The post-ideological crusader is the oldest ideology in the building.

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