Weekend Wrap 8 January: Republicans finally settle on McCarthy, Dutton’s polyphonic press conference to undermine the Voice

Ben looks at how the dysfunctional Republican Party took a record
number of ballots to finally elect the only candidate they had
for speaker and why the next two years may be ungovernable for
the Party that once saw itself as the "natural party of
government".


Peter Dutton has kicked on 2023 behind in the polls and desperate
to find a pathway into government.  Today's press conference
on The Voice was a classic polyphonic speech, talking to multiple
audiences with a different set of meanings.  It was crass,
it was disingenuous, it displayed how he remains beholden to far
right ideologues and it had a touch of cooker sprinkled into the
middle.


Ben breaks down why this double speak will fail to win back the
Menzian centre right and further entrenches people's distrust of
Dutton and his conservative rump.


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