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Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has brushed off reporting that his MPs are frustrated with his repeated failure to say whether he does or does not support multiculturalism, as the party faces sustained losses in support to One Nation.
“I think all of us absolutely reject Labor’s version, Labor’s multiculturalism, which is different for different people,” Taylor told Nine’s Today this morning.
“I’m not going to comment on anonymous backgrounding … I don’t do that. What I focus on is our plan, holding Labor to account, and with respect to the issue we were just talking about, you know, a multiculturalism that says you can have different rules for different people – that’s not what Australia is. That’s not what I stand for,” he said.
Reporting in The Australian newspaper this morning said that “a growing number of Liberal MPs” were questioning Taylor’s leadership and were “dismayed” at his lack of cut-through since taking reigns of the party in February.
In this masthead’s Resolve Political Monitor, the Coalition’s primary vote had fallen by 3 per cent, to a record-low of 20 per cent of the primary vote since Taylor’s ascension. By contrast, One Nation has risen to 29 per cent of the primary vote, ahead of Labor on 28 per cent.
Taylor was repeatedly questioned this week over whether he supported the value of multiculturalism, and repeatedly failed to offer a direct response. The questions come as One Nation leader Pauline Hanson advocates for a policy of “monoculturalism”.
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