Molan has been associated with the Liberal Party, helping to launch the Liberal opposition party's military-led border protection campaign in the lead up to the 2013 federal election in Brisbane on 25 July 2013 [REF].
At the 2016 federal election, Molan was a Liberal party candidate for the NSW senate but in what former prime minister Tony Abbott called a "tragedy for our country and for our party", Molan failed to be elected [REF].