'Kind of boring': senator sick of party navel gazing

A Liberal senator has brushed off suggestions of a potential split within the party following its election loss, as one expert warns the coalition needs to target moderate voters to win back ground.

Following the coalition's worst election result in its 81-year history, internal tensions have emerged over its future direction, with some suggesting a split along ideological lines.

But Liberal senator Jane Hume said any split would further weaken the opposition and that a united approach was needed to give it the best chance at the ballot box.

Reports of a split were "nonsense", she added.

"What unites us is far more important and far stronger than what divides us," she told ABC Radio on Friday.

"In a post-election world, it's time that we stop talking about ourselves.

"Australians don't want to hear Liberals talking about ourselves.

"It's really kind of boring."

The tensions within the Liberals have prompted suggestions that disaffected party members might cross over to the Nationals, with leader David Littleproud saying all are welcome to join.

But Senator Hume dismissed that also.

"I do look fetching in an Akubra, I'll tell you that much," she told Seven's Sunrise program.

"I'd have to speak slower and talk about the regions more often."

While other Liberal MPs contemplate a further shift to the right as support grows for parties like One Nation, one academic says any future direction for the party needed to come back to the centre of politics.

"Australians like centrism, they don't like anything too far left or too far right," Monash University politics lecturer Blair Williams told AAP.

"If the Liberal Party did go down that conservative route, they might take votes from One Nation, but I don't know if they're going to win back the seats they need in the metropolitan areas."

The coalition's election post mortem is still being carried out, with policy reviews in portfolios such as energy and climate also ongoing.

The lack of policy has meant some MPs struggle to articulate the party's position, Dr Williams said.

"It would be good for them to have some kind of policy basis that they can come back to and they can talk on," she said.

"There's been a vacuum of policy for a good while now, for a good few years, even the 2022 election there weren't many policies."

Senator Hume said a more detailed policy offering would be critical for any future success.

"We will make sure that we take a suite of policies to the next election that not just electorally compelling, but also are true to the values of the Liberal Party," she said.

"That's something we failed too do at the last election, but we are committed to going to the next election with a genuine alternative."

Frictions emerged in the party after the sacking of conservative NT senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price from the front bench and MP Andrew Hastie's resignation from the shadow ministry over policy differences.

Dr Williams said while Ms Ley as leader should focus on getting the Liberals back towards the centre, the party would be most effective in accommodating a wide range of views.

"The Liberal Party is strongest when it's a broad church, where it has a broad range of opinions from conservatism to liberalism," she said.

"But it seems to be quite difficult for them right now, so it's not an easy path forward."