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Politics with Michelle Grattan: Liberal MP Bridget Archer urges other moderates to speak up as she presses for party change
The Coalition’s decision to oppose the Voice to Parliament has put its moderate members in a jam. Some moderates are active yes advocates, while others are trying to keep low profiles.
Bridget Archer, the outspoken Liberal MP for Bass, is a vocal yes campaigner. More generally, she is also taking a lead in urging the Liberal party to undertake root-and-branch reform.
Archer is pushing for extensive change in a party that is electorally on the ropes, out of office everywhere except her home state of Tasmania.
Since entering parliament in 2019, Archer has crossed the floor on 27 occasion to…
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