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LABOR’S LANDSLIDE SAMANTHA HUTCHINSON JOE KELLY SEAT COUNT PRIMARY VOTE Before Now Change Labor Lib/ Greens Others Nats Senior Liberals are warning that Labor 46 53 7 +4.16 +3.72 slides the Morrison government is on Lib/Nats 37 26 11 track for a “hammering” in Victor- ia at the 2019 election, with up to Greens 3 2 1 but PM -1.65 seven federal seats in danger fol- Independents 2 3 1 lowing a disastrous state poll re- sult. In doubt 4 popular -6.23 Scott Morrison and Josh Fry- denberg have called for calm and SHARE OF LOWER HOUSE SEATS NATIONALY unity in the wake of a statewide After 2007 federal election Before 2011 NSW election two-party swing of 4.8 per cent 4.6% 5.2% PRIMARY VOTE away from the Liberals, but some 27 36.2% 31 44.2% % Nov 8-11 Nov 22-25 federal MPs have conceded that COALITION 35 34 instability and the removal of Mal- 214 LABOR 40 40 262 colm Turnbull had alienated Vic- GREENS 9 9 torian Liberal voters. 350 300 ONE NATION 6 8 After the worst state election OTHERS 10 9 result for the Victorian Coalition 59.2% 50.6% TWO-PARTY PREFERRED in 16 years, former Victorian Lib- COALITION 45 45 eral premier After the 2013 federal election Now LABOR 55 55 warned last night the federal party 3.7% 6% BETTER PM 36 had to change course radically. 22 MORRISON 42 46 “If the federal Liberal Party SHORTEN 36 34 doesn’t understand and learn from 198 263 FULL TABLES P4 this, then they’re doomed to have 373 306 similar results, and not just in 62.9% 43.5% but across Australia,” 33.4% 50.6% EXCLUSIVE Dr Napthine told The Australian. “And I think there has been, SIMON BENSON LIBERALS LABOR OTHERS across the Liberal brand at both NATIONAL POLITICAL EDITOR state and federal levels, the discus- sion and involvement of people WHAT IT MEANS The Morrison government faces a from the further Right (that) has When you’re smashed from one side of the rout of similar magnitude to that really damaged the brand.” state to the other, the factors are fundamental, experienced by the Victorian Lib- Premier was whole-of-campaign, and institutional. erals at the weekend’s state elec- re-elected on Saturday and his PETA CREDLIN P9 tion, with the Prime Minister Labor Party could hold up to 55 struggling to win back Coalition seats in Victoria’s 88-seat lower Charisma is an old-fashioned word but voters despite a recovery in his house, while the Coalition is likely ’s complete lack of it certainly own popularity. to lose at least 10 seats. An exclusive Newspoll conduc- hampered the Liberals’ campaign. Mr Andrews said Victorians ted for The Australian shows the had chosen a “positive plan” over GRAHAM RICHARDSON P6 federal Coalition’s primary vote the politics of fear and division. falling for the third poll in a row to After a lacklustre campaign, Kroger’s vendetta against senior Liberals who a near-record low of 34 per cent, Leader Matthew Guy raised millions of dollars demonstrated disunity as senior ministers yesterday is expected to resign, while long- – talk about biting the hand that feeds you. defended claims that Victorian time state president Michael Kro- voters at the state poll had taken ger has said he will step down in P7 out their anger on Canberra. April after calls from former Vic- The Coalition now trails Labor torian premier Jeff Kennett for his The Greens roared about being the new on a two-party-preferred split of axing. force in politics but their toxic culture 45-55 for the second consecutive Mr Frydenberg, Victoria’s most and woeful candidates were exposed. poll as it heads into the final two senior Liberal, is backing a root- weeks of parliament and poten- and-branch overhaul of party STEPHEN CONROY P9 STUART McEVOY tially the last before the next fed- campaigning, with Senate presi- A fresh-looking Victorian Premier, Daniel Andrews, discusses the election results in yesterday eral election if an early poll is dent Scott Ryan and Victorian MP called for March. Michael Sukkar joining calls for an play a role in the campaign. “I’ve voters raised issues including the The results for the government urgent assessment of the way the never relied on anybody outside federal leadership change and the Puffer-jacket squad delivers pained message will reinforce accusations that the campaign was conducted. NSW and I don’t intend to start party’s failure to come up with a dumping of Malcolm Turnbull Labor’s stunning gains on Sat- now,” Ms Berejiklian said. national energy policy. “Their vote amid a string of policy disasters urday have guaranteed it will hold Federal Liberal sources said was not accidental, it was a very political shockwaves from Mel- last night that I won’t vote again,’’ Liberals the scare of the century. and a drubbing in the Wentworth more than 50 per cent of lower that while the Victorian arm of the deliberate message,” he said. INSIDE STORY bourne to Canberra. Reilly says. “I get too upset about it. The Liberal candidate, 38-year- by-election has fed into the Vic- house seats in parliaments nation- party bore the brunt of responsibil- “We can either heed it and start The Liberal Party, their Liberal I am getting too old.’’ old , should have torian results. wide for the first time in almost ity for the loss, there was “an over- finding how to advance our values Party, no longer spoke to them. In For more than 150 years the been a shoo-in. He is a qualified But in a sign that the party is eight years. Since the 2013 federal lay of federal issues” that meant through our diverse modern CHIP LE GRAND Daniel Andrews, they saw a Prem- seat of Brighton has not been lawyer, holds a master’s degree in being blamed, rather than its lead- election, the Coalition has lost key seats including Chisolm, society, or keep trying to force ier promising to deliver more of touched by Labor hands. The elec- business and is an experienced er, Mr Morrison doubled his lead about 110 lower house seats na- Dunkley, Corangamite, La Trobe reality through our priorities.” They came for them wearing the essential services and infra- torate was considered so safe, political operative, having served as preferred prime minister over tionwide, dropping its share rom and Casey could all be los. This Further voting analysis by The puffer jackets and pearls. structure that a fast-growing city Labor was willing to run as a token stints as an adviser in Spring Street Bill Shorten over the past fortnight 63 per cent five years ago to 43.5 could unseat MPs including Continued on Page 6 Along the beaches of Sandring- needed. In Matthew Guy, they saw candidate a 19-year-old university and in Canberra. and recorded a significant four- per cent. 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THE AUSTRALIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2018 LABOR’S LANDSLIDE theaustralian.com.au 7 ALP cuts deep into conservative heartland WINNERS & LOSERS But the Victorian Electoral the Liberals’ Dee Ryall. And in South Barwon with a swing of 8.6 held by Labor on margins of less Fiona Richardson, who died last held 52.82 per cent of the two-can- cause many locals voted for them Commission said only four seats Burwood, Labor’s was per cent. Other likely Labor gains than 3 per cent, but are now safe August. A by-election in Novem- didate preferred vote. regardless of their performance, were too close to call — Bayswa- ahead of Liberal Graham Watt include the Mornington Peninsula seats. Frankston recorded a 9.5 per ber saw the Greens’ Lidia Thorpe She said part of the Labor swing comparing support to that of a TESSA AKERMAN ter, Brunswick, Hawthorn and with a 6.4 per cent swing. Mount seat of Bass from the Coalition, cent swing to Labor, Bentleigh elected with a swing of 11.6 per cent was a desire to continue the An- football team. Ripon — and would require the in- Waverley in Melbourne’s east was while Nepean was too close to call. swung 11.8 per cent, Carrum 11.7 per after preferences. drews policies and promises for “It doesn’t matter whether your The Daniel Andrews landslide clusion of postal votes when also a Labor gain with a 6.2 per Labor sources said the party be- cent and Mordialloc 12.2 per cent. Labor candidate and former another four years. team wins the grand final or not, could deliver at least eight new counting resumed this week. cent swing. lieved it had a chance in Morwell, A near giantkiller was teenager Richardson staffer Kat Theopha- “The track record of the Labor you’re going to stick by your Labor MPs into parliament with Based on VEC numbers, Labor In the seat of Hawthorn, which where local independent Russell Declan Martin, 19, who contested nous said there was a difference Andrews government is black and team,” she said. big swings to the party in Mel- would win 53 seats, the Coalition has been held by the Coalition Northe is running, and in Prahran, the Liberal safe seat of Brighton between a state election and a by- white, they can see that,” she said. Ms Cupper, however, said poli- bourne’s eastern suburbs, areas 26, the Greens two, independents since 1955, opposition legal spokes- against the Greens. and won a 6.9 per cent swing. The election. Independent was tics was about leveraging resour- that were once considered con- three with four undecided. man John Pesutto is separated Labor was a striking winner in seat has never been held by the “[It’s deciding] which party you poised to take Mildura from the ces for the community and “being servative heartland. Labor gains in the east of Mel- from his Labor rival John Ormond the battle for the sand-belt, a group ALP since its formation in the want to form government,” she Nationals, holding 51.26 per cent quite mercenary about it”. Last night the ABC had predict- bourne included Box Hill with a Kennedy by fewer than 100 votes of four marginal seats on the east- 1850s. said. “The stakes were higher this of the two-candidate-preferred She said independents such as ed 52 seats for Labor, 24 to the Co- swing of 7.7 per cent away from on a two-party-preferred basis, a ern side of Port Phillip Bay, that in Labor also took a scalp from the time for voters’ attention.” vote yesterday with 80.45 per cent in and alition, two to minor parties and 10 Liberal Robert Clark. In nearby swing of 8.6 per cent against him. the past have flipped and decided Greens to win back the metropoli- Ms Theophanous, daughter of of ballots counted. federal Indi MP Cathy McGowan seats in doubt, based on 71 per cent Ringwood, Labor’s To the southwest of the city the government. tan seat of Northcote which had former Labor government minis- She said it was exciting to have had shown independents could be of the vote counted. won a 7.7 per cent swing to defeat around Geelong, Labor picked up Before the election, all were been held by former minister ter Theo Theophanous, yesterday closed the gap on the Nationals be- effective. Puffer-jacket squad delivers pained message Disciplined campaign delivers a big dividend Continued from Page 1 have provided the sons and daugh- disunity within the Liberal Party, ters of Brighton gleaming JEFF KENNETT he totally failed in his objective to Osmond smiles. COMMENT gain control of the foundation’s Instead, the seat of Brighton finances. remains close. In Church Street, I said on Saturday night that where delicately poached eggs Kroger’s time has come and gone steam on kerbside tables and a and in the interest of the party he poodle sits on the end of every leads he should stand down lead, there is one name that keeps immediately. coming up in the election post- The second issue was the mortems: Malcolm. turmoil in Canberra with yet Sitting outside a corner cafe, another leadership change, which Julie Hoyne says she is shocked by As the early results came in for followed similar changes by the result but, in a way, not sur- those seats the Coalition needed Labor. The public is sick and tired prised. “The general consensus to win to form government or of politicians playing their own was that Daniel Andrews was get- even force Labor into a coalition personal games irrespective of the ting on with the job,’’ she says. “I with the Greens, it was clear there public interest. Again it felt for the first time in a long time was no favourable swing. demonstrates disunity, by those that things were really changing in In fact, quite the opposite. As whose views were out of step with terms of infrastructure and trans- the night progressed, the swing the majority of Australians. port. I felt we were in safe hands across eastern and southeastern I did not approve of Malcolm with him. Melbourne built for the Labor Turnbull taking the leadership “In the wider context, there is a Party. Towards the end of the from Tony Abbott for the same real backlash over what happened evening, some of my colleagues reason I did not approve the with Malcolm Turnbull. People on the Seven Network panel were removal of Turnbull. Elected are just disenchanted with what predicting a gain for the ALP of 16 prime ministers should complete happened with the Liberal Party seats. I suspect when all votes are their terms, regardless of polls and their treatment of Malcolm. I finally tallied that number might and the personal ambitions of didn’t feel he was performing be somewhat less. others. This destabilising badly, it was just pure venom on Regardless, it is an campaign against Turnbull behalf of Tony Abbott.’’ overwhelming victory for Daniel At a nearby table, a 46-year-old Andrews and his team of accountant says that for the first politicians and party organisers. I The turmoil in time in his life, he didn’t vote Lib- congratulate them. Canberra and the eral. He doesn’t want his name So why did the Andrews team published in case some of his do so well? In the main I suspect destabilising campaign clients hold it against him but because the Premier ran a very against Turnbull when asked why he didn’t back a disciplined campaign. It was hurt the Victorian Guy government, he provides a against a background of Liberals badly. scathing bottom line. “At the fed- considerable works being done all eral level there seems to be more around the state, particularly in focus in infighting and locally, the metropolitan Melbourne. reflected on everyone wearing policies didn’t really resonate,’’ he STUART McEVOY The Premier’s catchphrase of Liberal colours. It hurt the says. “I really like Labor’s infra- Brighton voter Julie Hoyne, right, with Margaret, Jarrod and Danielle Magee having a coffee in the bayside suburb yesterday “getting the job done” was being Victorian Liberals badly. structure and big-picture thinking. lived by the community. Of the issues on which the That grabbed my attention.” With about a third of the votes change resident of the hamlet of drews as “the most radical premier result represents a Victorian rejec- Other aspects of the Labor Coalition based its campaign, law The moment he walked into still to be counted and four seats to Harmers Haven, says that to and Labor government we have tion of the muscular conservatism government that caused some of and order, regardless of the the polling booth on Saturday, his be decided, this election has swung understand why this seat went to ever seen’’. Even by the standards personified by Abbott, Peter Dut- us deep concern — the red shirts violent incidents that are part of overriding emotion was frus- a wrecking ball through Liberal Labor you need only think back to of campaign hyperbole, it is an ton and to a lesser extent, Prime affair and the proposed massively our society, did not rate against tration. “I am just over it,’’ he says. Party heartland. In Brighton, the the extra money Andrews prom- extraordinary statement. Minister Scott Morrison. increased debt over time — were activity and employment, which Outside Botticelli Ristorante, swing to Labor is sitting on 7 per ised for the nearby Wonthaggi The Andrews government, a “It is not the basis on which the not front and centre in most of were the bases of the Labor grey-haired angels are gathering cent. The further you drive along Secondary College and a hospital. state government in Australia’s party was formed,’’ the former Vic- the community’s mind. campaign. for their 55-year class reunion. Port Phillip Bay, the worse it gets; She also thinks Canberra’s fastest growing state, embarked in torian premier says. Labor had a plan, they were Clearly the Liberal Party will They went to Brighton’s Star of the an 11.8 per cent swing in neigh- August follies played a part. its first term on a substantial infra- “It is not Menzies’ formation delivering, and the public were have to scrutinise its Sea, the Catholic alma mater of bouring Bentleigh, 12.2 per cent in “We all hoped that Abbott structure agenda involving a new credo, it is not what the Hamer witnessing that delivery. Their performance, policies offered and Germaine Greer. When asked Mordialloc. would go and disappear into the Newbury metro rail tunnel, new roads and credo was and I would like to think campaign was positive. campaign techniques. about the election, they deliver a Frankston, an uber-marginal sunset,’’ she says. “To think he was tunnels and the removal of level it wasn’t my credo. I think it is out For any opposition it is always There was one Coalition scornful review. battleground before Saturday, is the catalyst for getting rid of party, don’t get caught up in the rail crossings. It went to the polls of kilter with the community.’’ difficult to unseat a first-term policy that upset me when I heard “Abbott has caused the prob- now safe Labor. Carrum and Bent- Malcolm …’’ conservative echo chamber of promising to spend more money Reece and Kennett agree that government, particularly one that it announced late in the lem,’’ Paula Reilly says. “He is still leigh, two other marginals, were As the electoral carnage un- branch meetings. For every vote on hospitals, schools and voca- the Victorian election result is in office in good economic campaign: the plan to close the bitter and twisted. I thought Mal- decided before preferences. folded on Saturday night, political you gain on the right pandering to tional training and to build more should prompt a substantial re- times and uses those good times medically supervised injecting colm was doing a good job.’’ In the eastern suburbs, an elec- hardheads couldn’t believe what hard-core conservatives, you lose roads and rail. Having kept the think of how the Liberal Party to address many of the facility. Leonie Tully doesn’t like the toral dam broke, with Burwood, they were seeing. five in the middle. It is the same budget in surplus, it is willing to approaches the next federal elec- community’s infrastructure We have been trying to cut of Guy’s jib. “He is over the top Ringwood and Box Hill, a Liberal At the Village Green Hotel in reason why the Labor Party run up state debt to provide what is tion, expected in May. challenges. address the drug issue for years and his whole approach irritates seat since the first year of the Ken- Andrews’s seat of Mulgrave, an should never pander to the needed. From what political per- Before Saturday, Canberra’s Matthew Guy led a united without success. One person’s life me,’’ she offers. “It is like he is nett government in 1992, all falling ALP victory party was in full swing Greens.’’ spective is this a radical agenda? gaze was firmly fixed on familiar parliamentary team, but did not is as important as any other haranguing voters.’’ to Labor. Hawthorn, held by the within an hour of the polls closing. Amid a jubilant throng of red- The Liberal Party campaign, by NSW battlegrounds and the elec- have the levers to pull that a person’s, and the facility is a Christine Chamberlain stuck conservatives for all but one term A chant of “four more years’’ shirted volunteers, Labor sup- contrast, was built on a narrowcast toral wilds of Queensland, where government has and therefore, genuine attempt to address the with the Liberals, partly because since 1889, is another once safe became “eight more years’’ as red- porter and retired shearer Ray message about population growth the Liberal National Party has like any opposition, can only drug issue differently and better. Newbury’s grandfather straight- seat on a knife edge. As of last seat projections soar. Nicholson was more succinct: and crime. It is a message that fail- spent years trying to mute the promise action if elected while In my opinion, good ened her bottom teeth many years night, 53 votes separated oppo- At the back of the room, former “Every Liberal leader that I can ed to convince enough voters in siren call of Pauline Nation and the government is delivering. governments are those that are ago. Yet she has no love for the sition legal affairs spokesman ALP state secretary Nick Reece, remember has always espoused to marginal and previously safe Lib- various, conservative carpet bag- Guy was caught by two economically conservative and party figures who knifed Turnbull. John Pesutto from John Kennedy, an adviser to John Brumby and follow in Menzies’ footsteps. I am eral seats. Guy told The Australian gers. If Saturday’s swing was repli- maelstroms not of his making socially liberal. To meet the “There is no glue that is holding a 71-year-old former school princi- Julia Gillard during their times in nearly 70 and I can remember in the last week of the campaign cated across Victoria in the federal that sucked the oxygen and the changing circumstances of our everyone together,’’ she says. “It is pal and RAAF officer now living in office, said the message for the Lib- Menzies. Mate, Menzies wouldn’t that the “noise’’ from Canberra election, the Liberals would lose up support from the conservative times, with so much of that so factionalised. They need one a retirement home. erals should be loud and clear. piss on this mob.’’ had not helped. to five seats to Labor. As Kennett parties. One was his president change being driven by the good leader who can hold them all In the coastal seat of Bass, the “Australian elections are de- Two days before the election, Jeff Kennett credits Andrews puts it: “Forget Queensland, forget Michael Kroger’s personal and heightened education of our together, but the party won’t let great blue of the Southern Ocean cided in the middle,’’ he said. Victorian Liberal Party president with running a disciplined, posi- NSW; the federal election could be very public and financially costly community, to be socially them. It’s terrible.’’ turned ALP red. Geraldine, a sea- “Don’t listen to extremists in your Michael Kroger described An- tive campaign. He also believes the won and lost here in Victoria.’’ vendetta against the Cormack responsible the Liberal Party Foundation and its directors, who should have found its way clear to have been senior Liberals and support the injecting room. Rewarded for keeping promises Crossbench to overtake Libs highly respected businessmen As I have always said, the who have given decades of public does not vote for voluntary service to the party, oppositions, they vote for or CAMPAIGN going on all around Australian and 3:1 in TV advertising. Their UPPER HOUSE perer” Glenn Druery to execute Jobs MP James Purcell and DLP- and raised millions of dollars. against their government. On politics over the past decade or so. strategy against the Greens was to their preference deals, prompting turned Australian Conservatives Talk about biting the hand that Saturday, the public “That positive narrative bit into “make voters aware that they have calls for reform of the voting MP Rachel Carling-Jenkins both feeds you. Not only did Kroger’s overwhelmingly voted for their RACHEL BAXENDALE parts of the electorate that we an internal cultural problem with RACHEL BAXENDALE system. left their upper house seats to action over months demonstrate government. VICTORIAN POLITICAL didn’t even think were possible for women”. “We used researchers, A Labor upper house MP stand unsuccessfully in the lower REPORTER us to make headway in.” who tested these things to make Labor is hopeful of having enough warned that while the pro-Labor house. The strategist said Labor had sure we weren’t going to offend allies to control an upper house mood was strong on election day, Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Win ‘a renewables endorsement’ The epicentre of Labor’s over- run a negative campaign against Greens voters, but could highlight that is likely to include more MPs pre-poll votes that had yet to be Party MPs and Dan- whelmingly successful Victorian Opposition Leader Matthew Guy, the Greens as hypocrites, and a from the crossbench than from the counted might be less favourable iel Young also look to have lost A re-elected Daniel Andrews has previous upper house, as soon as campaign was premised around associating the Liberal brand with political party with cultural prob- Liberal Party. and the final Labor seat count their seats, along with Reason hailed his stunning victory as an possible. Premier Daniel Andrews as some- cuts to schools and hospitals and lems,” the strategist said. In the previous parliament, the could be less than 19. Party leader . endorsement of Labor’s 50 per “The 50 per cent renewable one who made achievable promis- instability in Canberra. Another strategist said Labor Labor and Liberal parties each Liberals poised to lose their Despite Labor’s success on Sat- cent renewable energy target and energy target is exactly what our es in 2014 and delivered on them. “In my view, the Liberals then had made the decision to run a held 14 seats in the 40-member seats include , urday, Ms Patten said she believed a rejection, for the second time, of state needs and it is pretty good for Labor strategists say their focus helped us with their negative cam- strong negative campaign against upper house. Margaret Fitzherbert, Inga Peul- the upper house of which she was a the East West Link road project. the planet, too,” Mr Andrews said was on presenting Andrews as paigning, because they focused the Greens when internal polling ich and Josh Morris, with National member was “more progressive”, At his first press conference as a when asked whether Saturday’s someone who delivered on prom- their efforts on issues that don’t was showing the minor party on The Greens have a quota for Luke O’Sullivan also unlikely to and viewed the smaller crossbench second-term premier, Mr poll had delivered a verdict on ises that made a difference to the matter to most voters, like Safe track to win five lower house seats just one seat, down from five in the return. as a positive. Andrews said he planned a cabinet renewable energy. lives of people in marginal seats, Schools and the safe injecting and gain a seat in the upper house. previous parliament. Several Liberals were quick to “I’m really pleased that I was in reshuffle, with ministers likely to Mr Andrews said he was hon- such as level crossing removals, room trial, stuff that’s in the bub- With counting ongoing, the Ten seats remain undecided, blame Victorian Liberal Party the last parliament where I guess I be sworn in later this week. oured by the election result. road and rail projects and boosts to ble,” the strategist said. “They re- Greens could lose four of their five with Derryn Hinch’s Justice Party president Michael Kroger for pref- could get some really progressive His first order of business today “(Victorians) have resound- hospital and school funding. alised that wasn’t working and upper house seats, and look likely expected to pick up as many as erence deals one described as “a legislation though,” Ms Patten will be to send tender documents ingly endorsed our positive and “The fact we were able to de- focused more on cost-of-living is- to hold only one or two lower four seats and the Transport Party shocker”. said. She said she had not com- to market for Melbourne’s optimistic plan for the next four liver on those promises meant we sues, but it was too late.” house seats. (formed by taxi drivers angry with “Clearly Labor had a careful pletely given up hope of retaining $15.8 billion North East Link toll years and reflected so positively on could present Dan as someone The strategist said Coalition in- Labor Victorian secretary Sam Labor’s legalisation of Uber) looks strategy for the upper house, in- her seat. road, with a contract expected to the work that we’ve done these last who had broken the mould that itiatives to highlight Labor’s scan- Rae has been credited as the first likely to win two. The Aussie cluding preference deals with Premier Daniel Andrews be signed within 12 months. four years,” he said. has developed in relation to the dals, such as the red shirt rorts, had Labor secretary to target the Battler Party, Liberal Democrats, nutty minor parties, even those it backed calls for reform of the With Labor likely to hold as “I’m also very proud and body politic, that politicians break not cut through with voters who Greens so aggressively. “It worked, and Animal should be opposed to philosophi- upper house voting system. many as 19 of 40 upper house seats, pleased that the Victorian com- promises and don’t deliver,” a sen- regarded all politicians as untrust- and proved the Greens can be Justice Party appear most likely to cally (parties) like the shooters,” “There is a normal process Mr Andrews said he was hopeful munity have comprehensively re- ior strategist said. “It enabled us to worthy and just wanted to hear a taken on,” the strategist said. “The pick up the remaining seats. said another Liberal. “In contrast, where the all-party electoral mat- of passing legislation including jected the negativity, the fear, the do positive ads about what he’s positive message about how poli- national office will take this on and All of the microparties that Kroger and co barely thought ters committee look at the results Labor’s 50 per cent renewable spite, that small brand of nasty done, and it worked really well be- cies would affect their lives. double down, and go very hard stand to win seats, with the excep- about the council. It wasn’t any of the election, the conduct of the energy target, and nurse-to- politics that was on offer and was cause it was true and was an im- Labor outspent the Coalition against (Melbourne MP) Adam tion of the , kind of priority to them.” election, and they will make rec- patient and nurse-to-midwife rejected in record numbers.” portant juxtaposition to what was 2:1 on advertising across the board, Bandt at the next federal election.” have paid fees to “preference whis- Warrnambool Vote 1 Local ommendations to us,” Mr ratios, which were blocked by the RACHEL BAXENDALE Andrews said.