When Keith Wolahan realised something was wrong, his campaign team decided to make 2500 phone calls to Chinese-Australians in his electorate. What came back was toxic.
In the seat next door, Chisholm, sitting Liberal MP Gladys Liu – the first female Chinese-Australian elected to the House of Representatives – was not so lucky, losing to Labor after a 6.9 per cent swing. With the Coalition largely failing to advance any major economic reforms while in government, they believe the reforms to national security laws and reorienting the China relationship to a more realistic footing are its legacy.Credit:Wolahan, a former Army captain, doesn’t believe the Liberals should change any of their policies on China. But he does think the party needs to do a much better job of differentiating the Chinese Communist Party from Chinese-Australians.
But there are also questions about whether the Liberal Party’s grassroots engagement with multicultural communities is up to scratch, and whether some members are using the China angle as an excuse for their own lacklustre campaigns. After Tudge’s comments, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton asked Liberal MP David Coleman to offer his thoughts to the party room. Coleman is one of the MPs who withstood the tide; his Sydney seat of Banks has about twice as many Chinese-Australians as Aston but he only suffered a 3 per cent swing.Coleman told the party room the main issue wasn’t the Morrison government’s tone but its policies. And given the policies were correct, he said “we can’t do anything about it” in a macro sense.
A similar debate is going on inside the party on how to bring back inner-city voters who left the party for independents, the Greens and Labor.
Not going to work unless they change their attitudes towards, well, just about everything.
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