Paul Erickson puts Labor’s election win down to more than voter fatigue with Scott Morrison and cites failures of Liberal-National team
So why does Labor think it won – and will the Liberals’ problems outlast Morrison’s leadership into Dutton’s reign?The first reason for victory was “a pathological refusal to take responsibility for anything, which comes from their small government mindset”, Erickson said.
“This isn’t the wisdom of hindsight, Chris Bowen pointed out the urgent need to invest in a range of potential vaccines in July 2020. Liberal failure to do so was the context for Morrison saying three times in one day in March 2021 that the vaccine rollout was not a race and it wasn’t a competition. The bungled rollout wasn’t something that happened to the Coalition, it was a direct result of their dangerous complacency.
“No Victorian needs to be reminded of the Liberals’ subsequent attempts to undermine the public health response to the second wave in Melbourne, led by Josh Frydenberg and the lamentable Tim Smith,” he said.Erickson repeated Labor attack lines about the Coalition’s “incompetent budget management”, including that it racked up “billions of dollars in wasted rorts, and nothing to show for a trillion dollars of debt”.
, with “assertions that the Chinese Communist party were backing Labor, warmongering rhetoric on Anzac Day, talk of ‘red lines’, and failed attempts to suggest Labor opposes the Aukus arrangement”.
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