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Coalition ‘legitimised’ One Nation, says Albanese
Anthony Albanese says the Farrer byelection was “devastating” for Angus Taylor and his Liberal party, criticising the Coalition for adopting One Nation “lite” policies, and preferencing their candidate.
I think the Liberal party and National party made a big mistake legitimising One Nation and saying, in adopting many of their policies, but a lighter version of them, and then following that up by giving them preferences, they were saying effectively that it was okay to vote for One Nation rather than the traditional conservative party.
[One Nation] are a political party led by someone who’s promoted grievance rather than solutions. And I understand, though, a protest vote will be cast. In this case, it was a devastating result, I think, for Angus Taylor and the Liberal party.
The community were feeling disillusioned. We’ve heard the message loud and clear. We need to rebuild trust.
It’s only been ten weeks that Angus Taylor has been the leader, and fewer than that that Matt Canavan has been a leader of the National Party. I think that the breaking up of the Coalition twice just in the last 12 months alone has been a pretty devastating breach of trust for the Australian people. They expect a united and strong coalition. That’s what is in place now, but we pay the price for that breach of trust at the Farrer byelection.
I’m not going to anticipate that.
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