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Good morning
Hello and welcome to this Sunday 10 May.
And welcome, too, to an upturned political order in Australia, after One Nation won its first ever lower house seat at the Farrer byelection.
Pauline Hanson says her rightwing populist party is coming after Coalition and Labor seats around Australia, declaring her supporters want to “take the country back” after winning an emphatic victory on Saturday.
The result is stunning for a number of reasons: One Nation candidate David Farley finished in a two-party contest with independent Michelle Milthorpe. It was a jarring visual for political watchers used to seeing elections as red vs blue contests.
The loss will further weaken Angus Taylor’s depleted opposition, and is the latest evidence of a move away from the traditional forces in Australian politics.
Sussan Ley – the former opposition leader, whose resignation set the byelection in motion – has urged the Liberals to accept the result with “humility”, saying “voters never get it wrong”.
There is a lot to unpick today, and we’ll be bringing you coverage of reactions and news stories as they come in. The shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, is due to be interviewed on the ABC’s Insiders program shortly.
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Ley: the voters never get it wrong
Some more on the statement from Sussan Ley, who resigned as member for Farrer after she was dumped as opposition leader.
Serving the people of Farrer for 25 years, having been endorsed by locals at nine elections, was the privilege of my professional life. I know David (Farley) will feel that same sense of honour and responsibility.
Until tonight, at every one of 30 elections since 1949, through difficult and challenging circumstances, it has been held without exception by the Liberal and National parties. It would be an error to reduce both the scale and significance of tonight’s defeat to a Coalition split which occurred months ago, or to misattribute it to the date the vote was held.
I urge the Liberal leadership to accept this result with humility because the voters never get it wrong. On the day the leadership spilled in February, the new leaders said the Liberal Party needed to ‘change or die’. Three months later, the result in Farrer demonstrates that statement to be far truer today than it ever was then.
Good morning
Hello and welcome to this Sunday 10 May.
And welcome, too, to an upturned political order in Australia, after One Nation won its first ever lower house seat at the Farrer byelection.
Pauline Hanson says her rightwing populist party is coming after Coalition and Labor seats around Australia, declaring her supporters want to “take the country back” after winning an emphatic victory on Saturday.
The result is stunning for a number of reasons: One Nation candidate David Farley finished in a two-party contest with independent Michelle Milthorpe. It was a jarring visual for political watchers used to seeing elections as red vs blue contests.
The loss will further weaken Angus Taylor’s depleted opposition, and is the latest evidence of a move away from the traditional forces in Australian politics.
Sussan Ley – the former opposition leader, whose resignation set the byelection in motion – has urged the Liberals to accept the result with “humility”, saying “voters never get it wrong”.
There is a lot to unpick today, and we’ll be bringing you coverage of reactions and news stories as they come in. The shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, is due to be interviewed on the ABC’s Insiders program shortly.
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