There’s been a LOT - maybe too much - analysis about the Liberals election loss, but pollster Graham Young, actually has insights based on research to share. And some of them are very enlightening.
They talk about the conservative opposition leader in Australia not being strong enough, and not talking enough about the economy, but there were probably three very specific things that helped sink their campaign.
The first is that Mr Dutton lacked a basic level of charisma. People on the conservative side of politics were 'having a lend of themselves' if they thought he was a good candidate. Those on the left, and mainstream media, probably did not go after him because he was such an unlikeable stiff, and so he got a free pass (to sink his own ship).
The next thing that happened during the election, aside from his flip flopping on the work from home policy (wanting to axe it), was his threat to cut public service jobs. In a country of 20 million voters the public service, that includes the bureaucracy, teachers and nurses, makes up more than 2.5 million voters.
The last major issue was his push for nuclear energy in Australia, which is something few voters wanted in their backyards. It was pushed as a solution to severe energy shortfalls and to appease those brainwashed by the 'climate crisis' propaganda. The big problem was that building such plants would cost hundreds of billions of dollars and would take decades to complete. As a globalist stooge, Mr Dutton, although a conservative, played along with this climate nonsense rather than challenging it. Many people sitting on the fence, when it came to the two major parties, tipped towards the existing Labor Government over this issue. Nuclear energy simply did not make sense to a lot of voters - many actually feared it.
Also, in general, the conservatives come across as those that will cut people's benefits and Mr Dutton's missteps only reinforced that idea.
When it came to the economy, something touched on in the above video, but not really expanded upon, the focus should have been on the fact that Australians are suffering from a cost of living crisis caused by bad Government policy. Present high energy bills, that are squeezing ordinary people and destroying industry, are the result of switching to renewable sources while the country lacks enough natural gas to supply adequate back up power when the grid demands it. The other cost of living problem is the out of control housing demand caused by high immigration that's jacked up house prices and rents.
What Dutton should have done (or rather a charismatic replacement), is to have promised lower power bills by investing in gas and coal and then told the public, including business owners, what their bills would be with such a policy. Australia actually has a lot of gas that can supply cheap energy for the entire country but exports most of it, which is something that can be turned around almost overnight by forcing a change in contracts to the corporations running the industry. Likewise, high prices for housing and rents could be quickly addressed by slashing immigration.
Only the minor nationalist leaning parties were prepared to stand by (anti globalist) policies that would properly counter the cost of living crisis. However, the mainstream media simply ignored them, giving air time to the misguided major parties and the minor globalist-leaning 'independents'. As a result Australia will be stuck in an economic mess until the next election when public gets another chance to vote themselves in the right direction (unless the present Labor government wakes up to itself).
[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, June 2, 2025.]
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