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Opinion: Though not a big presence in Parliament, our collective voice should be louder than ever

By Michael Wilson | Mon 18th May 2015 - 9:06 am

It is eleven days after the election, and the wounds are still very much present. We have lost great fighters in our parliamentary party: visionaries, firebrands, wholehearted devotees to the Liberal vision for our country.

Though this loss has been devastating for our party and our morale internally, it has been even more debilitating for the country as a whole. Now, for the first time in 23 years, there is a Conservative majority government at our nation’s helm, and we are already seeing their vision for our country: snooping on our own citizens, denying us our human rights, and using the veil of extremism to obliterate free speech and crush religious groups who don’t agree with them.

This election has been the biggest disaster for Liberalism in the history of our country, and it is for that reason that this is not the time to sit back and lick our wounds – this is the time to stand up, brush ourselves off, and fightback.

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