Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on what Albanese's election win means for the oppostion

The sweeping loss for Peter Dutton's Liberal National coalition in the Australian election likely has long-term implications for the party going forward.

Anthony Albanese has become the first Prime Minister since 2004 to win back-to-back elections, with an even larger majority than his last. 

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says nobody saw this political 'blood-bath' coming for the opposition.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Olli Peterson six pr Perth Life presenter out of Australia
with us.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, Ali, get a Heather, what about Albo? He will
be feeling chuffed today, won't he Oh? Big time?

Speaker 1 (00:09):
This is something that nobody saw coming, to be perfectly
honest with you, Heather, even though the polls were obviously
showing on the two party preferred question it was sort
of a fifty three versus forty.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Seven pole indication.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Nobody quite saw the blood bath which is now the
Liberal Party, which is completely cactus in this country.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
And the Prime Minister is quite.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Emotional to be perfectly honest and quite proud and as
he should be of himself and his team that he
wants to still lead for all Australian. So today he's
had a conversation, he says, with Donald Trump. It was
warm and friendly. He's already back in Canberra getting back
to work. But Heather, this is the roost that he
can rule for not only this term but probably another
term after that.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
If he wants to do it. It's really his. It's
his way on the highway. Now, what do you think
doesn't did wrong?

Speaker 1 (00:56):
I think ultimately Peter Dutton was never sold proper leader
to the Australian people that he was always a person
who was the tough cop on the beat, always wore
a suit, you know, never was a personable to people,
despite the fact that off air and I've interviewed Peter
Dutton a heap of times, he's a really likable bloke
as he's Anthony Albernezi. They're probably two of the less

(01:17):
politician politicians, if that makes sense, heither when they're off air.
But what I think he did wrong is he stood
for nothing in the end, so he really isolated women
voters in Australia and women in general. That work from
home policy which he said, all of a sudden, public
servants come back to work, you got to do it,
and then a few days later he said no, actually
we're not going to do that anymore. So Peter Dutton

(01:37):
was always a politician of conviction that then showed that
he didn't stand for that. His nuclear power policy I
think was also a fatal flaw because there was no
detail around it. He said, we're going to bring in
nuclear it's going to cost billions and billions of dollars,
but it was really off in the never never, So
the hard work of policy in opposition was not done

(01:58):
and he really became unstuck during the early campaign, looking
as though he wasn't prepared, as though he was a
one man band. And this is a really really big
existential crisis for the Liberal Party Nowheather, because they just
simply do not resonate with mainstream Australia. And there is
a long way for the party to come back from
the wilderness which has really been almost hijacked by the

(02:19):
conservative side of the party. They need to somehow find
a way back to the center and then somehow actually
provide an alternative to the Labor Party, which is doing
very well in.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
That center left area on the political spectrum.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
So it's a fascinating result and something that our country
is going to grapple with, as I said, for at
least another two terms.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Alber Ezi slash Labor governments. Fascinating stuff. Now, what's the
problem with the Olympic stadium in Brisbane that's supposed to
be under construction.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
The Green groups have just decided that the government doesn't
have any authority to claim the land and build the
Olympic stadiums. So this is the Crucifilly government up there
in Queensland. They've introduced new legislation to the Queensland Parliament
to basically get this built and they're not worried about
really the opposition to the Victoria Park Stadium. By the way,

(03:05):
I was in Brisbane on the weekend for Magic ground
up the wires bluddy of City Brisbane, and I think
this is just going through what the usual throws of,
if you like, of a of a concerned local group
is for the environment. But they'll have to jump over
a few more hurdles, pardon the pun, and hopefully they
can get this in constructed.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Twenty thirty two is not far away. No, I liked
your hurdle thing. By the way, I'm still thinking about
it because you'll be jumping hurdles there at the at
the Olympics. Heether. Yeah, no, I know, I got it.
I got it immediately and then I was kind of
really give me those corporate boxes. You and I are together,
will have fun. Do you still watch Super Rugby?

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Well, as I said, I went to rugby league on
the weekend. I've been to the Force a few times
this year. Same thing, you know, I mean.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Okay, rugby league is different to Super Rugby, though isn't it.
Yeah it is, But isn't everybody on rugby league these days?

Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:51):
That's right. So do you still watch a little bit
of the Force.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
So the Force has been really good this year and
they're going to, you know, probably miss out on the
finals again.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well I'll go to the same as you. I will
go to the.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Game when it's in Perth, but I won't sit down
and watch it really and yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll go
to the game.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
I enjoy going to the game. Why at you watching it?
Because I probably prefer to watch rugby league?

Speaker 1 (04:10):
Yeah mate, oh mate, No, Listen, they've got a major
problem with the pair of us and just talking about
this and without any shame at all.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Ollie, thank you. I really appreciate it. Oliver Peterson, six
PR Perth Live Presenter. For more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive,
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