Tony Abbott said the Coalition is in danger of losing the next election if it keeps Malcolm Turnbull at the helm.
Mr Abbott said many conservatives are seeing the government as “Labor lite” and it needs to swing back towards the right.
The former prime minister suggested putting a halt to all new spending, cutting immigration, reforming the senate and scrapping the Human Rights Commission.
“Many of the people who normally support Coalition governments aren’t happy,” Mr Abbott said to the ABC at the launch of a book of essays on ‘Making Australia right’.
“They are publishing their own ways to ‘make Australia right’ because, they think, the government is not up to it.”
Mr Abbott urged the government to change tack and find a police that was “philosophically acceptable, economically responsibly and politically saleable.”
“A sense of disappointment and disillusionment pervades these essays: disappointment with the Abbott government and perhaps even despair about the Turnbull government,” he said.
“These criticisms aren’t always fair. Still, unless we heed the message from people who think that we have let them down, a book like this can become the thinking persons’ justification for voting One Nation.”