In what is likely to be its worst-ever loss, Australia’s opposition party has been left reeling following a crushing setback in Saturday’s federal election. The leader of the Liberal party, Peter Dutton, also lost Dickson, the seat he had occupied for the previous 24 years.
Due to Labor’s overwhelming win, the Liberal party is currently frantically trying to choose a new leader and determine what went wrong for them during this election cycle. Some Liberal party members have demanded a “serious review,” and one adviser summed up the defeat as the failure of “the Dutton experiment.
Dutton has also been removed from parliament, making him the first federal opposition leader to lose their own seat and an election. Dutton lost to Ali France of Labour in Dickson, his home stronghold in Queensland.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters outside a Sydney café on Sunday that “the Australian people voted for unity rather than division” in his first public appearance following Labor’s resounding victory. Australia’s largest cities saw the Liberal party suffer the most devastating losses, with party members virtually exterminated in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide.
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