{"id":1739,"date":"2026-02-11T00:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:20:11","slug":"australia-politics-live-moderate-liberals-call-for-angus-taylor-to-end-ongoing-chatter-and-declare-leadership-intentions-rent-tipped-to-surge-again-australia-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"Australia politics live: moderate Liberals call for Angus Taylor to end \u2018ongoing chatter\u2019 and declare leadership intentions; rent tipped to surge again | Australia news"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\n
\n
\n

\u2018Enough is enough\u2019: moderate Liberals call for Taylor to make his position known<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

More Liberals have come out telling Angus Taylor<\/strong> and his allies to stand up and call the leadership spill publicly.<\/p>\n

Moderate senator, Maria Kovacic<\/strong>, who is a staunch Sussan Ley<\/strong> supporter, told reporters today:<\/p>\n

\n

<\/svg>Enough is enough of the ongoing chatter on leadership. If you want to call a spill, put your name to it and call it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Kovacic and fellow moderate, Tim Wilson,<\/strong> did a doorstop earlier around reports from Nine <\/a>that the CFMEU administrator directed Geoffrey Watson<\/strong> SC to remove findings from his report that Victoria\u2019s Labor government turned a blind eye to CFMEU connections to organised crime.<\/p>\n

But, of course, most of the questions were about whether Taylor would \u2013 or should \u2013 resign from the frontbench today. Wilson avoided the question at all costs, while Kovacic gave the brief answer above, right at the end of the doorstop.<\/p>\n

\n
\"Liberal<\/picture><\/div>
<\/svg><\/span>Liberal senator Maria Kovacic and shadow minister for industrial relations, Tim Wilson.<\/span> Photograph: Mick Tsikas\/AAP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The pair have called on the workplace relations minister, Amanda Rishworth<\/strong>, to sack the government-appointed administrator, Mark Irving<\/strong>. Kovacic said:<\/p>\n

\n

<\/svg>She must now call for the resignation of the administrator. To seek not just to redact a few lines or a few sections of the report, but chapters of the report is extraordinary.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Updated at\u00a0

<\/p>\n

Key events<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/gu-island><\/p>\n