Australian news and politics live: Angus Taylor, Jane Hume get to work on selling the new Liberal Party
LIVE UPDATES: Angus Taylor and Jane Hume are wasting no time in getting the Liberal Party back on track, selling their vision for the future of Australia. This is their plan.
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Max Corstorphan is reporting live.
Hume says Liberals will never be One Nation
Reacting to the recent horror polls, which put One Nation on par with the Liberals as Pauline Hanson’s party sees a surge of support, deputy leader Jane Hume said that under her and Angus Taylor, Australians would be given hope again.
“The Liberal Party will never become a party of grievance or a party of reactionary politics,” Senator Hume told Sunrise.
“We want to make sure we don’t need to move to the right, we don’t need to move to the left. We just need to remind people who the Liberal Party stand for and who we fight for.
“That’s mainstream Australians. We speak for the unrepresented. We don’t look after sectional interest like big unions or big business, we look after Australian families, we look after small businesses.”
Senator Hume said the Liberal Party gives “reward for effort”, and is “a party of opportunity and aspiration.
“What we want to give is people that sense that next year is going to be better than last year, and they haven’t had that for so long under Labor.”
Net zero rejected, Taylor open to all energy technologies
Angus Taylor says his Liberal Party will be open to all fuel sources to create policy that brings an end to Aussies paying for Labor’s failings.
“We need to open our energy system to all available technologies.
“The ideology we have seen from Labor, where they only like some fuels - they hate others - is leading to huge increases in prices, almost 40 per cent since Labor came to power. In my time as energy minister, they came down 10 per cent,” Mr Taylor told Sunrise.
Challenged on his inability to sell the Liberal Party’s energy policy at the last election, just nine months ago, Mr Taylor focused on the future.
“You will see policies from us on energy. We’ve already laid out were rejecting Labor’s net zero ideology,” he said.
“There will be more to say on where we go from here.
“But what I can say is we need every fuel source in the mix. This is so crucial. Labor is failing because they pick their favourites. It’s all ideological and Australians pay for it.”
Taylor accepts mistakes, reveals ‘priority’ for getting back on track
New Liberal Leader Angus Taylor and new deputy leader Jane Hume have spent their Monday morning completing an enormous media blitz as the two desperately attempt to sell the concept of a new Liberal Party.
“We’ve got to admit the mistakes we’ve made in the past, but the priority has to be restoring the Australian standard of living and protecting their way of life,” Mr Taylor told Sunrise.
Mr Taylor said energy policy, which wasn’t ideological and actually brought prices down, restoring the Aussie dream of owning a home, and an immigration policy that “puts Australians first”, shutting the door to those who do not subscribe to our way of life, was key to the success of the Liberal Party.
On immigration, Mr Taylor said the people who should have the door shut on them are “people who don’t accept the most basic beliefs that have made us a successful country”, including following the law, allowing free speech and religious freedom.
Mr Taylor said it was vital that Australia’s intelligence agency was properly funded and resourced to ensure people who do not align with Australian values are kept out.
