Coalition coming to terms with loss of “quiet struggling” voters following the federal election

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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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00:00From blue to red in outer Brisbane's battler suburbs, shock winds for Labor.

00:09Seats like Petrie and Ford frankly weren't even on our radar as being possible at this

00:13election.

00:14Some living in Logan lost faith in the coalition.

00:16A lot of my friends who tend to vote LNP just didn't seem to like Peter Dutton very much.

00:23Rowan Holzberger won an almost 6% swing to Labor, unseating 15-year incumbent Burt Van

00:30Mannen.

00:31Some voting Labor for the first time.

00:33I think the policies were probably not the right things to have, you know, nuclear power.

00:39I don't think, where are they going to put these plants?

00:42We've got people down in tents and so forth, you know, and it's families and stuff and it's

00:46really hard for some people.

00:47Those sentiments from Ford have been echoed in outer suburbs around the South East.

00:52From Bonner to Peter Dutton's former seat of Dixon and here in Petrie, they've all switched

00:58from the LNP to Labor.

01:00I think the ALP brand just stood way and above everything that was on offer.

01:08Peter Dutton, the good man that he was, was very reserved and he wasn't the sort of person

01:15that you feel you could rush up to and say, you know, pat him on the back.

01:18I think what we saw across the weekend was a demonstration against what's going on in

01:25America with Trump.

01:26One political analyst says former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard wooed voters in

01:31the outer suburbs in the early 2000s, selling families messages full of hope and aspiration.

01:37There wasn't much hope and aspiration in the message of the LNP of the Liberal Party going

01:43forward.

01:44In fact, it was a fairly bleak message about getting back on track.

01:47Cost and living and the housing crisis, all critical factors.

01:50Murray Watt says the plans to axe working from home was the final nail in the coffin.

01:56I think went down like a lead balloon in those outer suburban suburbs.

01:59Voters just want their new MPs to get to work.

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