It’s as if, one Liberal said this week, there are only two moods in the parliamentary Liberal Party at present – fear of the future and unease about the past.
Some might have been building up to a new emotion during the party’s wild ride this week as resistance built to Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s odd position on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament grew and culminated in the shadow attorney-general, Julian Leeser, stepping down in a moment of principle rarely seen in politics.
