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Coalition coming to terms with loss of “quiet struggling” voters following the federal election
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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5/8/2025
As the bloodletting continues within the Coalition, it is coming to terms with being abandoned by "quiet struggling Australians". In Queensland two of the shock losses were Forde and Petrie.
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From blue to red in outer Brisbane's battler suburbs, shock winds for Labor.
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Seats like Petrie and Ford frankly weren't even on our radar as being possible at this
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election.
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Some living in Logan lost faith in the coalition.
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A lot of my friends who tend to vote LNP just didn't seem to like Peter Dutton very much.
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Rowan Holzberger won an almost 6% swing to Labor, unseating 15-year incumbent Burt Van
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Mannen.
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Some voting Labor for the first time.
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I think the policies were probably not the right things to have, you know, nuclear power.
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I don't think, where are they going to put these plants?
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We've got people down in tents and so forth, you know, and it's families and stuff and it's
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really hard for some people.
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Those sentiments from Ford have been echoed in outer suburbs around the South East.
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From Bonner to Peter Dutton's former seat of Dixon and here in Petrie, they've all switched
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from the LNP to Labor.
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I think the ALP brand just stood way and above everything that was on offer.
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Peter Dutton, the good man that he was, was very reserved and he wasn't the sort of person
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that you feel you could rush up to and say, you know, pat him on the back.
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I think what we saw across the weekend was a demonstration against what's going on in
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America with Trump.
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One political analyst says former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard wooed voters in
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the outer suburbs in the early 2000s, selling families messages full of hope and aspiration.
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There wasn't much hope and aspiration in the message of the LNP of the Liberal Party going
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forward.
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In fact, it was a fairly bleak message about getting back on track.
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Cost and living and the housing crisis, all critical factors.
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Murray Watt says the plans to axe working from home was the final nail in the coffin.
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I think went down like a lead balloon in those outer suburban suburbs.
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Voters just want their new MPs to get to work.
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