By James Hall

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At first pass, both addresses may have appeared fairly innocuous. But as the disarray and turmoil within their party perpetuates, it’s clear two of the party’s highest-ranking elected officials in the country – on the mainland at least – have had enough.

At the Queensland LNP convention last month, the famously disciplined Crisafulli, who has largely resisted temptations to encroach on federal branch matters, delivered some brutal but correct truths to why the party was so compressively defeated.

“A plethora of well-meaning right-wing campaign groups and minor parties fractured our vote,” he said.

“The more we tried to appease them, the further we got from the middle ground of Australian politics who shifted their vote elsewhere.

“We cannot be distracted by internal squabbles and we cannot be captured by those who seek to divide us.”