It has been a miserable weekend for the Liberals. In Tasmania, an 11 per cent swing left Australia’s last Liberal state government in an even more perilous position than it was when Premier Jeremy Rocklifffollowing the retirement of Steven Marshall. Add to that the Liberal Party’s failure to make any significant headway federally in the Dunkley byelection three weeks ago, and it is obvious that it continues to have a deep problem in southern Australia.
When Queensland swings, it swings big: much more than elsewhere in Australia. When Anna Bligh lost office in 2012, the LNP won 78 of the 89 seats in the parliament. Then, just three years later, Campbell Newman – wrongly assuming his massive majority gave him a free pass to offend just about every constituency imaginable – was turfed out after another massive swing. Palaszczuk took Labor from seven seats to 44 in one go.The same imbalance is evident federally.
The dust had barely settled before Labor began attacking the Greens for focusing their campaign on unseating Labor councillors rather than beating the LNP. The Greens are now eyeing the state electorates in those parts of Brisbane where they either won or came second, with realistic hopes of significantly increasing their representation in state parliament.
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