The key to understanding the catastrophic election result for the Coalition is sitting in plain sight: Voters haven't changed, the Liberal Party has.
To many, it was unclear why Morrison had allowed a social issue to become the major policy point with an election just weeks from being called. After all, Liberals believe the mantra "it's the economy, stupid" and knew it would be their strongest play.
That Bridget Archer and Trent Zimmerman voted against the Liberals was fine. The party knew that was coming. But it was Fiona Martin, the first-term marginal seat holder, who copped the blowback.Senior Liberals felt she had blindsided her own government. When she crossed the floor, fellow first-term moderates Katie Allen and Dave Sharma followed her. Two crossing the floor would have been OK. Five was a disaster.
She entered the campaign the most marginal Liberal in the nation. A regional MP representing northern Tasmania, she wasn't like her urban moderates under threat from teals. As a "captain's pick", Deves's comments were always going to attract more attention than those picked by their branches. "[Voters] would say that he is too religious, didn't like he carried coal into parliament, they didn't believe his sincerity on climate change and didn't like our handling of Brittany Higgins and Grace Tame."Jane Hume says Liberals need to get out of people's bedrooms and focus on economic issues.
"I feel like we saw that turning point with the March for Justice when women sat up and said ‘I've got something to say'," Archer told the ABC on Monday.
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