The new Liberal leader risks learning the wrong lesson from the party’s haemorrhaging of votes to One Nation as he appeals to the conservatives
More than a few times throughout his political career, Angus Taylor has told the story of his grandfather, William Hudson. A civil engineer, Hudson remains a “pervasive” role model for Australia’s new opposition leader.
Hudson was favourite to be appointed commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority in the late 1940s. When the federal cabinet demanded three nominations for the job leading the massive project, the minister for works presented Ben Chifley with a slip of paper which read “Hudson, Hudson, Hudson”.
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