At least one Canberra Liberal has already begun rattling the tin for the 2020 election campaign, even though the party is yet to outline its alternate vision for the city.
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Mark Parton announced via Facebook he will hold a fundraising dinner at the Canberra Greyhound Racing Club at the end of the month.
Guests will include former jockey, Sky Racing's John Scorse as well as former Gold Coast Titans executive and new Greyhound Racing NSW boss Tony Mestrov.
Mr Parton said the dinner would be casual, not "highfalutin and fancy", with tickets $35 a head.
Canberra Liberals party director Zac Lombardo said via a statement the party put on fundraisers "in a variety of sizes and formats, including time-tested dinner events like Mark's upcoming fundraiser".
Mr Lombardo said most events were organised by grassroots members, and elected representatives usually put together a few over their term.
"I understand Mark has chosen to make a post on social media to attract interest to an event he has organised at the Canberra Greyhound Racing Club on April 27 and interest has certainly been generated," Mr Lombardo said.
Asked what kind of access to Canberra Liberals politicians there would be, Mr Lombardo said it was up to the individual MLA whether they would attend.
The public nature of the event advertisement raised some eyebrows within the party though, especially as the Liberals are yet to lay out their direction to win the next election, after five consecutive losses.
Insiders have privately expressed concerns the Liberals were spending too much time "sniping from the trenches" rather than setting out their own vision for Canberra.
Leader Alistair Coe promised envelope-pushing policy ideas from the Liberals after their reshuffle in early February, but the party has largely been focused on trying to pry apart the Labor-Greens coalition on issues of integrity and transparency.
In a statement, Mr Coe pointed to several bills the party had brought forward this term as evidence of their vision for Canberra.
"The Canberra Liberals have been putting forward policies about the future of Canberra. This work includes introducing bills into the Assembly to address concerns about the integrity of the Labor-Greens government on the sale and development of land in the ACT. The need for an anti-corruption commission is essential given the multitude of scandals engulfing the government," Mr Coe said.
"In addition to exposing dodgy deals, our policy position has included stopping the decline in police funding and officer numbers, introducing dangerous dog legislation, proposed legislation to combat organised crime, improving building standards, reversing the ban on greyhounds, legislating to criminalise revenge porn, pushing for greater transparency in government spending, improved bushfire hazard reduction, establishment of a light rail stop in Mitchell, child sexual assault awareness, and improved provision of local urban services."
One insider said it was unfair, and almost unheard of, to expect the Liberals to lay out their policy platform so far out from an election.
They noted the Dickson land swap would not have been exposed without Mr Coe's digging, and the Opposition did not have the resources of government.
Mr Coe said the party would have "much more to say on the economy, and all areas of policy in the coming months and years".
The Liberals were hit with a 2.2 per cent swing against them in the 2016 election, despite a series of factors playing against the incumbent Labor government.
An internal review carried out in the months after the election pointed to problems with understaffing, poor budget allocation, patchy communication between candidates and party officials, and candidates going off-message during the campaign.
The party was urged to come up a fundraising campaign for 2017, 2018 and 2019 to bankroll pre-campaign research, staff and advertising.
