Peter Dutton faces internal pressure to freshen the party and shift gears on policy or face questions about his leadership, after the Liberal Party’s historic and crushing loss at the Aston byelection.
Peter Dutton faces internal pressure to freshen the party and shift gears on policy or face questions about his leadership, after the Liberal Party’s historic andAs crestfallen Liberals raked through the ashes of the first loss of an Opposition seat to a government in a federal byelection since 1920, Mr Dutton accepted responsibility for the result but showed little sign of changing tack.
But disconsolate MPs warned that a similar defeat at the next byelection, expected within months, in Scott Morrison’s suburban seat of Cook, would spark unrest. The victory gives Labor 78 seats in the 151-member House of Representatives and leaves the Coalition with 56, which is 20 seats short of the bare majority of 76.
But Mr Dutton also singled out the state Liberals in Victoria, noting Labor has held government in the state for almost all the past 24 years and the state Liberals went backwards again at the election in November last year.“Obviously, the difficulties for us in Victoria haven’t germinated in Aston over the course of the last five weeks,” Mr Dutton said.
“He failed to do it at the last election and to not do it again is of particular concern,” said one MP.“He could have framed it against Morrison’s failures. Now it’s partly his responsibility.” “After ten years of being part of the problem, Peter Dutton now fails to be a part of the solution,” Mr Albanese said.
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