22.55 BSTBridget McKenzie: Coalition had many problems and Labor ran a ‘superior’ campaignNationals senator, Bridget McKenzie, told ABC’s RN Breakfast there needs to be a “deep, honest and brutal” examination in what went wrong in the Coalition’s election campaign, but said no one factor was at fault.
There’s no one issue that you can point to that was the reason the Coalition had a catastrophic loss … there are issues around the campaign, research, communication, policy, etc., and tactics and strategy. And let’s be give credit where credit’s due. The Labor Party ran a superior campaign.
McKenzie said the Donald Trump factor benefits the incumbents at a time of global uncertainty, and said Trump “isn’t a conservative” as he “is literally ripping down institutions in a reaction to a political class in America which is very different to the political class here in Australia.”
Here in Australia, we have a compulsory voting which tears us to the center, and for good reasons.
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