Can the second coming of Tony Abbott resurrect the Liberal party? Or is it another step toward ‘self-destruction’?

Guardian Australia · Dan Jervis-Bardy and Sarah Basford Canales · Saturday 30 May 2026

Can the second coming of Tony Abbott resurrect the Liberal party? Or is it another step toward ‘self-destruction’?

Angus Taylor believes the former PM is uniquely placed to help the party as its new president, but some fear he will render it even more unelectable

Talleyrand said of the restored Bourbons that they'd learned nothing and forgotten nothing — and here's the Liberals dragging back the man their own party knifed in '15. A president rattles the tin and rallies the faithful; he doesn't win the middle. Taylor reckons Abbott's uniquely placed. He is — uniquely placed to remind everyone who left exactly why they did.

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