“We have a women problem and a professionals problem and I’m not sure what they’re trying to do to fix it,' said one Liberal source.
After the 2019 federal election, Labor and the Coalition both commissioned reviews of their respective campaigns. As the 2022 election was to make clear, one party took the advice to heart while the other did not.
The Liberal Party’s 2019 election review, headed by former senator and ambassador to the United States, Arthur Sinodinos, focused on the elements that delivered its unexpected win.The party had won thanks to a string of Labor missteps, negative perceptions of Shorten and a “flawlessly executed campaign strategy” aided by a strong budget.But Sinodinos also noted troubling issues, especially the party’s dependence on Queensland to offset weakness in other parts of the country.
Three years later, Labor’s 2022 election review identified a variation of the 2019 problem: people in outer-suburban areas were “generally angrier and more frustrated” with the major parties due in part to COVID restrictions which disproportionately affected these regions. One Liberal MP, who asked not to be named so they could discuss the review freely, said the review was “a bit like the official family trying to cover up their crimes”.“The review doesn’t deal with the issues dealt with in [this masthead’s series] Wipeout or Niki Savva’s book [“We have a women problem and a professionals problem and I’m not sure what they’re trying to do to fix it.”
In the northern suburb seat of Scullin, held by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles, there were some huge falls in Labor’s primary vote. In the Thomastown Meadows booth, Giles’ primary vote dropped by 23.2 per cent. That was after a 4.4 per cent fall in the 2019 election. Independents were not just a threat to either the Liberal or Labor party at the 2022 poll. The Greens had their most successful election on record, boosting its lower house representation to four.
“The reality is that Queensland Labor underestimated the threat from the Greens in these seats,” it noted. “The teals are not a collection of independent entities. They are, by any meaningful interpretation of the term, a political party and should be considered by the electoral authorities as such.” The Australian Electoral Commission was already due to consider redistributions in NSW and the Northern Territory during the current parliamentary term.
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