The Wheeler Centre

Is this the end of the Liberal Party? Paul Kelly, veteran political commentator and Editor-At-Large of The Australian, unpacks the crisis facing the centre right, 20 years in the making. Public support for the Liberal Party has collapsed in Australia, leaving it facing a crisis that is unique in its 80-year history.  With a new leader in place, can the Liberals combat the rise of One Nation and win back the city voters that have abandoned the party? In his new book The Twilight of Exceptionalism, Paul Kelly tracks where it all went wrong, charting the most turbulent era of Liberal politics under the leadership of Tony Abbott, Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison and offering an incisive assessment of how the Liberal Party lost its way. Join Kelly for a timely edition of The Fifth Estate, as he breaks down the intellectual, cultural and political crisis that has brought the Liberal Party to breaking point and argues why Liberal policymakers must embrace pragmatism over polarisation to offer a credible opposition to Labor. With host Sally Warhaft.