The Liberal leader is wedged between his diminishing heartland of ageing refuseniks and a younger generation keen to walk forward in history
Granted, it’s never easy leading a government into opposition; there has not been a leader who has seen their party back to government in the past century, leaving a graveyard of broken dreams for those who grasped the poisoned chalice, from Sneddon to Whitlam, Peacock to Beazley, Nelson to Shorten.
The Coalition’s voting base is ageing. The staunchest supporters are the interwar generation, now aged in their late 70s and 80s, while their takeup with gen Z and millennials is closer to that of a minor party. These numbers paint a stark cultural divide between generations who came of age acknowledging country and those whose loyalty to the crown was part of their DNA.
Peter Dutton speaks at a Coalition joint party room meeting at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday.The challenge with the Uluru statement from the heart is it needs to be received by entities with functioning organs, not a sclerotic carcass of a political party operating with only a single wing. He will sacrifice what few remaining progressive members he has to the teals, while entrenching their hold on the metropolitan seats whose constituents are the strongest supporters of constitutional recognition.
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