Peter Dutton loses seat of Dickson in a significant swing against Liberals

ABC NEWS (Australia)

The coalition is coming to terms with their decisive election loss last night. Former New South Wales Liberal Minister Michael Yabsley is calling for a foundational review of the party's priorities.

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00:00By any measure, it's an absolute walloping, but there are reasons for it, and it would

00:09be an understatement to say that what the Liberal Party needs to do is to now go through

00:14some soul-searching, but you can't just pay lip service to the soul-searching.

00:19This has got to be a fair dinkum root-and-branch review so the cracks aren't papered over,

00:29which is what has tended to happen in the past.

00:32I actually think it has got more to do with the Liberal Party machine, which I contend

00:39is no longer a machine and has not been a machine for a long time.

00:44What I mean by that is a Liberal Party organisation, and this is something that I believe is largely

00:51ignored and provides not the whole of the explanation, but at least a significant part

00:58of the explanation that accounts for the sort of result that happened last night.

01:03So a Liberal Party machine, or a party machine if it is operating properly, needs to be able

01:10to recruit members, it needs to be able to fundraise, it needs to be able to develop policy,

01:17and it needs to be able to conduct pre-selections of candidates who stand the best chance of winning.

01:23They are what I would describe as the Liberal Party's KPIs, and those KPIs, the truth is,

01:31the inescapable truth is, that they have been miserably failed over a long period of time,

01:39and they are the home truths that need to be faced up to.

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