SPECIAL EVENT
Whither The Liberal Party?
Participating Chair: Barrie Cassidy • Niki Savva, Dave Sharma and Amy Remeikis
With support across the country crumbling – women alienated and teals ascendant – the Liberal Party seems trapped “somewhere between a glitch and a death spiral”. Can the party of Menzies and Howard survive? What kind of vision can it offer the next generation of voters?
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NIKI SAVVA is an award winning journalist, author and political commentator. She is a columnist with The Age and the SMH and appears regularly on ABC’s Insiders. She has written four books and in 2016 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Melbourne Press Club “for her outstanding coverage of Australian politics as a reporter, columnist and author.” First was a memoir, So Greek, confessions of a conservative leftie. In 2017 her best-selling book The Road to Ruin, how Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin destroyed their own government, won the Australian Book Industry Award for the best non-fiction book of the year. In 2019 she wrote another bestseller, Plots and Prayers, Malcolm Turnbull’s demise and Scott Morrison’s ascension. Bulldozed, Scott Morrison’s fall and Anthony Albanese’s rise, is also a best seller, winning two prestigious awards, one from ABIA and the other from BookPeople for best non-fiction book 2023.
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DAVE SHARMA is a former Australian diplomat and ambassador, currently working in the technology sector. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for the seat of Wentworth from 2019 to 2022.
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AMY REMEIKIS is a political reporter with the Guardian. She makes regular appearances on ABC's Insiders, the Drum and radio national, as well as Network Ten's The Project. She is the best selling author of On Reckoning.
PARTICIPATING CHAIR
BARRIE CASSIDY is one of Australia’s leading political journalists and analysts having had a long career at the ABC including 18 years as host of the Sunday morning discussion program Insiders. He is now chair of Old Parliament House in Canberra.