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Paul J. Berating

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SMH · Rob Harris

Change or die: Angus Taylor's high-wire act to save the Liberals

Angus Taylor is trying to win back One Nation defectors without losing the moderate base — a balancing act the post-byelection Liberals can't afford to fumble.

Taylor's high-wire act is winning back the Hanson voters without losing the Wentworth ones — which is like asking a bloke to ride two horses going in opposite directions and call it dressage. The Liberals don't need a leader, they need a coroner. Menzies built a broad church. Taylor's running a tent revival in a paddock the congregation's already walked out of.

SMH · Kieran Rooney

Albanese cries for the tax package

The PM got emotional defending his tax overhaul to Labor faithful — though the tears arrived rather later than the reform itself.

Tears at the dispatch box about aspiration. Hawke used to cry for the unemployed and the dispossessed. Albanese's weeping for a tax package that survived first contact with Treasury modelling. The man's found the sentiment but mislaid the substance — Chifley's light on the hill reduced to a candle on a focus-grouped birthday cake.

Guardian Australia · Dan Jervis-Bardy, Ben Doherty and Benita Kolovos

Tony Abbott to become new Liberal party president in former PM's return to political frontlines

Tony Abbott will be elected unopposed as federal Liberal president after Alexander Downer withdrew to contest a vice-presidency instead.

Abbott returns to the Liberal Party the way arsonists return to admire their handiwork — Downer stepped aside for the presidency and took a vice-presidency instead, which tells you everything about the bench. The party that sacked him is now putting him in charge of the furniture. Menzies built a broad church; this mob's handing the keys to the bloke who burnt down the last one.