More on the Rotten-ness in the State of the NSW Libs

It's taken some time, but the elusive David Clarke was finally coaxed out of hiding this week, but may want to go back in as ABC's Stateline tonight promises to probe further into the steaming heap of factional nastiness that is the NSW Liberal Party ... 7:30pm tonight, and 12:00 noon tomorrow with the immaculately coiffed Quentin Dempster.

Update: As it happens, this interview proved to be not much more than the same doorstop ambush already played on PM, to which I already linked above.

Possibly more interesting was the comments of George Brandis on Lateline:

GEORGE BRANDIS: I read what Mrs Forsyth and Mr Hockey had to say and can I just make a couple of observations. The Australian people don't like extremist politics, whether it's the hard left of the Labor Party or extreme right of the Liberal Party. They don't like it. They don't like their politicians to be on the fringe, they like them to be in the main stream. Unless they're satisfied that their politicians are in the mainstream, they won't vote for them. Can I observe that neither will they vote for parties that are warring among each other that are cannibalising one another. So I hope the Liberal Party in NSW picks itself up. Mr Debnam has assured us that that's his objective, which of course it is. I'm sure he'll heed the wise advice we had from the Prime Minister as recently as yesterday that the Liberal Party is not only a broad church, but a broad church with its doors wide open. There is room and a necessary place for all points of view on the broad Liberal conservative spectrum and if one were ever to try exclude the other, then it's the Liberal Party corporately that would suffer. Now the NSW Liberals have, I think, a tremendous opportunity to send a signal to the people of NSW they've leaded that wisdom. They've got State preselections coming up in the next 6-12 months, ,they've got a Senate preselection coming up in the next 6-12 months and I think if they're wise they'll use the opportunity of those preselections to show that they have reunited, that they've stopped cannibalising one another and that they're ready for government.

Human sacrifice and cannibalism? Hmm, the plot thickens! ;).

I also hereby start my Broad Church-O-Meter. Peter Debnam started the bidding, Brandis weighs in with not one but two Broad Churches - let's see the Libs push it into double figures!