Best of 2025: Women were once ‘essential’ to the Liberal Party. What happened?
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Show Notes
We’re bringing you the best episodes of 2025 before your Morning Edition team returns next week.
Last May, the incumbent Labor government swept to power while the Liberal Party suffered an election wipeout, with women voters, in particular, shunning the party.
In this episode, recorded just after the election result, political and international editor Peter Hartcher traces the Liberals’ surprising history of embracing the female vote and how that crucial vote was lost in 2025.
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