The opposition leader has drawn a parallel between US and Australian voters. But MPs in his party see different points of attack from Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says there is a parallel between the voters who rejected the Democrats in the US presidential election and Australians angry about the cost of living, as he seeks to tie Anthony Albanese’s record on inflation and immigration to Kamala Harris’ defeat.
While Dutton is already using the Trump victory to reinforce his messages on the economy and immigration, Coalition MPs are debating whether the Republican’s anti-elite focus could work in the Australian election, which must be held by May next year. A day before the US result, Dutton showed colleagues he wanted to avoid being dragged into fringe issues when he ordered the joint party room to ditch a push for a national debate on abortion.
“I think there are a lot of people in Australia who’d really see the prime minister as being very weak, the country heading in the wrong direction, and that will all feed into the next election.” “Australia is centrist in nature. We don’t need to drive people to the ballot box. Extreme positions are generally punished … It is the economic offering which is most important,” Bragg said.
“A bold proposition from the Coalition could be rewarded by the electorate at the next election. We should start with regulating welcome to country to make them culturally significant,” he said.“I think when I see a government that is more interested in pronouns than they are people, it starts to become a real problem,” he said.
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