Jacinta Price, Sussan Ley and the Indian diaspora: A problem of the Liberals’ own making

On the night of the 2007 election, as the Liberal Party faithful at Sydney’s Wentworth Hotel cried into their beers, a senior government official was overheard cursing the “f---ing Chinese”.

Not only had John Howard lost government after more than a decade, he had been rejected by the voters of Bennelong, the seat he had held for the past 33 years. Loading...