Liberal leadership hopeful looks to home ownership to boost support among young Victorians

Brad Battin says the party failed to define its values to voters and needs to target the outer suburbs

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The Victorian Liberal MP Brad Battin has pitched himself as a strong communicator who could better articulate the party's values to aspirational" voters in Melbourne's growing outer suburbs if appointed leader.

Ahead of a vote on the party's leadership due to occur on Thursday, Battin, 46, said the party had struggled to define what it stood for at last month's state election.

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