Peter Hartcher: Dutton will defy the teal tide and await the next wave to the right
Anthony Albanese said it over and over again in the election campaign: “We will end the climate wars.” If so, it’s a unilateral surrender. Because the commanding officer of the opposing army has an entirely different view.
The rock-solid Liberal seats once held by party leaders Robert Menzies, Malcolm Turnbull, Tony Abbott and Julie Bishop fell to “teals”. The Liberals’ deputy state director in Victoria, Tony Barry, described election night as a “teal bath”. The party had lost its base, he said. Already Dutton has said he’s keen to sit down to discuss the integrity commission bill that the teal independent Helen Haines has drafted.Second, Dutton makes the point that the Coalition shouldn’t rush to the left in reaction to the election. The Coalition lost votes not only to its left but also to its right. On his preliminary count, some 200,000 voters deserted the Liberals to vote for the teals.
“I want people to understand and to know that, as you move around the shopping strips and see little concrete slab sheds in industrial parks who are exporting $5 million worth of Australian product each year, they are the ones. I want to support them to become bigger businesses.” “Rich, educated professionals swung 11 to 12 per cent against the Coalition, while the country’s working poor swung only 3 to 4 per cent against them.”
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