After losing a number of heartland seats, the 2022 federal election was widely seen as plunging the Liberal Party into an existential crisis. So how and why has the LNP strayed so far from Menzies original vision of 1944?

Guests:

Fred Chaney, former Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party (1989 – 1990)

Judith Brett, Emeritus Professor of politics at La Trobe University; author of Robert Menzies' Forgotten People and Australian Liberals and the Moral Middle Class.

Troy Bramston, Senior Writer and Columnist, The Australian. Author of Robert Menzies: the art of politics