Peter Dutton’s Liberal party is turning on its closest ally

05/10/23 • 14 min

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There’s one relationship the Liberal Party has always prized: its relationship with business.

Other support bases for the party have ebbed and flowed, but the party has always drawn from the ranks of corporate Australia, and advocated for their interests.

Now, strangely as the party finds itself in electoral crisis, its federal leader, Peter Dutton, is speaking out against heads of business on a surprising topic: the Voice to Parliament.

Today, former Liberal MP and contributor to The Saturday Paper Julia Banks, on how the Liberal Party is losing corporate Australia.

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Guest: Former Liberal MP, lawyer and leadership consultant, Julia Banks.

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There’s one relationship the Liberal Party has always prized: its relationship with business.

Other support bases for the party have ebbed and flowed, but the party has always drawn from the ranks of corporate Australia, and advocated for their interests.

Now, strangely as the party finds itself in electoral crisis, its federal leader, Peter Dutton, is speaking out against heads of business on a surprising topic: the Voice to Parliament.

Today, former Liberal MP and contributor to The Saturday Paper Julia Banks, on how the Liberal Party is losing corporate Australia.

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Guest: Former Liberal MP, lawyer and leadership consultant, Julia Banks.

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