The Morrison government is on its knees and can’t rely on the good things it did in the pandemic to save it.
Marshall beat Jay Weatherill’s Labor four years go pretty much along the lines of an electoral redistribution that rendered the Liberals notional victors before election day.Not long after, polls showed Peter Malinauskas and Labor were well ahead.
We had a sniff of this at the four super Saturday state byelections in NSW last month, and confirmation came on Saturday.After Western Australia, SA had one of the best records through the pandemic in terms of the fewest days in lockdown, cases and deaths. The parallels with the May federal election are obvious. The Morrison government is on its knees and can’t rely on the good things it did during the pandemic to save it.
There is no disguising that the SA election result sent chills through the Coalition on Saturday night, not just because of the strength of the swing but how comprehensive it was across the state – be it city, town or bush.
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