Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on who could potentially replace Peter Dutton

Australia's Liberal Party is weighing up their options after Peter Dutton's recent defeat in the election.

Peter Dutton lost his Queensland seat following Anthony Albanese's landslide victory - and the opposition is looking to bring in a replacement.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says Dutton is among over a dozen Liberals set to lose their seats after the election - and the party's been reducing to a 'smoking ruin'.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with ends in eye insurance, peace of mind
for New Zealand business.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Murray Old's Australia corresponds with that's how he does.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
Good, good afternoon to you.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Who is going to succeed dozen, Well, it's a good
question who on earth would want the job? I mean,
here's some facts and figures where I heard Penny Wong,
the Foreign Minister this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
The coalition right, the Conservatives of a year.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
They've got seven out of eighty eight metropolitan seats. They've
got four left in Sydney, two or three in Melbourne
and Brisbane, none in Adelaide, in Perth, not one seat
in all of Tasmania.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
That's the scale of this disaster.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's a smoking ruin and it's never been this bad
since Mensis Sir Robert Menzie set this party up just
after the Second World War. Albanese is the first prime
minister to win a second term in twenty one years
increased majority. There's still about a dozen seats that are
being counted. But as we go to wear this afternoon,

(00:57):
we've got it looks a bit like this, eighty five,
eighty six to eighty seven seats to labor, fewer than
forty seats for the Liberals in the National Party. And
you say, who's going to lead it? As I said,
who the hell wants it? The youngest man perhaps the
generational change they should look at in Perth Andrew Hasty.
He is the shadow Foreign Minister. He's served tours of

(01:18):
duty in Afghanistan, and Iraqi.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Says, your kidding, I don't want it.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
So we've got one woman, Susan Lee, who was Peter
Dutton's deputy, don't forget Dutton lost. And you've got Dan
Tee and long serving, a veteran. And you've got Angus
Taylor who many people over here, a lot of the
inside of the Liberal Party too, are saying he's the
guy single handedly crueled the charts of the Liberal Party.
This guy is a Rhodes scholar, but I swear to God,

(01:42):
it's as though he's been doing push ups.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Under a park car. He just sounds like a dummy.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
And whenever he was asked about any economic policies at all,
he had nothing to say.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
In fact, he and.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Dutton with about you know, they put them up almost exclusively.
He had nothing to say in ordered Peter Dutton. And
you look at who voted for whom You've got all
the women, all the young voters, all the migrants. They
went Labor big time. I mean, who's voting for Dunton.
It's a small it's a tied to the right wing
rump of wealthy sixty seventy eighty year olds and they're diminishing,

(02:17):
dropping off the tweet and all the answers are coming through.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Yeah, I take your point.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's not a bad one. Do you see what the
westpap boss has said that the cost of living crisis
is behind us? Well, yeah, I mean he had some
pretty good figures he took over.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
His name is where his name? I've got it here,
Anthony Miller, Thank you very much. I knew I hadn't
the margin.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
He took over December first, first six months, three point
three billion dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Profit, so he started in the right note. The market
didn't like it that much. They wanted more.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
But indeed, mister Miller has said listen, Labour's re election
is not only good for the government, but it provides
consistency and certainty for Australia both domestically and abroad. And
he says the governments to use its mandate. That's a
huge mandate, Heather as you can appreciate a huge mandate.
And what Miller is saying now from Westpac, the government's

(03:07):
got to use this wisely. He says, Laby's got the
chance to drive the economy by, for example, by boosting productivity.
That's one big handbreak over here.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
That's a national challenge.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
It's got to seek ways as well, he says, to.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Reduce our reliance on China. By far, thisst country's biggest
trading partner.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
And he says, listen, there's going to be an interest
rate cup they think at a fortnite when the Reserve
Bank meets. That's going to also, you know, contribute to
the feeling of optimism over here. But a lot of
other people apart from mister Miller, are saying listen.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Be ambitious.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
In the second term, you need tax reform, significant tax reform.
The GST on the tax everyone pays on everything isn't cutting.

Speaker 1 (03:45):
It's not raising enough money.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
You have to broaden that base, maybe reduce personal income
taxes a bit, but you have to look at structural reform.
Housing is the single biggest issue over here, biting everyone
on the backside. Young people can't get into the market,
Heather and screaming. They want some relief, They want someone
to say this is the way forward. They certainly didn't
think Peter Dutton had it.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
That's for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
That's for sure. That's what the older outcome would suggest. Mars.

Speaker 1 (04:10):
It's good to talk to you.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Thank you so much as always, Marry Olds, Australia Correspondent.
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