Focus groups have warned the Morrison government could face electoral backlash at the upcoming federal election, with voters in key marginal seats in Western Sydney disillusioned with the Commonwealth’s sluggish vaccine rollout.
Parts of Western Sydney – home to 2.5 million residents – are currently facing tightened stay-at-home restrictions as a result of a growing cluster of cases in the Blacktown local government area.
“There’s two really profound sentiments that we’re seeing throughout the community at the moment: the first of those is really this sense that people really want this lockdown to succeed … the other one is this idea that we probably didn’t need to be here and that’s very much about the vaccine rollout,” he said.
“We had this great opportunity to insulate and protect ourselves through a vaccine and we’ve missed this window. In contrast, Mr Welsh said voters believe state governments are doing their utmost despite not being perfect.
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