Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has backed a new centrist party of teal independents to take on the Coalition, as independents Monique Ryan and Kate Chaney rule themselves out of joining.

Independents Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender, who this masthead first reported were leading the charge , said voters were dissatisfied with the main political parties and a new model could help them expand and meet dissatisfied voters.

Teal independents Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall addressing a press conference on Monday. Alex Ellinghausen

“Some different options need to be on the table. Whether it’s an evolution, whether it’s a party, whether it’s just working together differently. I think this is what we need to be thinking about,” Spender said on Monday.

“There are great models in front of community independents. But you know, for instance, you can’t run Senate candidates without a party.”

Steggall said independents were discussing how to be more effective in parliament as voter frustration with the main parties mounted.

“I’ve always been open to having conversations to look at that,” Steggall told a Canberra press conference. “There’s been significant changes, and as an athlete, you always have to meet the field of play. Staying still is not how you keep winning.

Spender said that she was not making commitments to form or join a new party, but “things can evolve” and if there was appetite in the community, a new party could develop.

“This is a question of how do we build something that seeks to come back to … some of those core Australian values, which is: we want to build prosperity in our businesses, we want the environment to be protected, we want to be kind to each other, and we want to make sure the vulnerable are protected. That is something that we’re trying to build,” Spender said.

Turnbull also said on Monday that the opposition had left a vacuum in Australian politics that created prime conditions for a new political movement, after this masthead revealed on Sunday that independent MPs were in the advanced stages of forming a new party structure.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has criticised his old party for chasing One Nation votes.Dominic Lorrimer

“There is absolutely an opportunity there. I mean, people feel the Liberal Party has moved away from the centre,” Turnbull told Radio National. “That is why the teals were elected, and the more the Liberal Party tries to chase and emulate and copy One Nation, the more it builds up the vote for One Nation.

“I think there is a vacuum for an alternative centre party. Now, the teals would be obvious people to be part of that, or to do that, and I’ve talked to them about that publicly going back some years, but whether they actually decide to do so is up to them.”

Sources familiar with the conversations told this masthead that Turnbull, who is still a Liberal Party member despite attempts to expel him, had raised with moderate Liberals the prospect of joining a new centrist mov…

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