#To be barked by the liberas plus#
#To be barked by the liberas professional#

In an election result that took on the appearance of 151 by-elections, or at least six separate federal elections broadly covering the six states, the result was marked by the dramatic shift towards independents and Green candidates, while the Coalition Liberal and National Parties performed better in outer suburbs, regional and rural areas.

However, for the Coalition, and the Liberal Party in particular, Saturday night proved to be a reckoning. At the same time, Morrison was not helped by adopting what he recently acknowledged was a “bulldozer” approach to government – one necessitated, he claimed, by the pandemic-generated crisis of the past two years.

#To be barked by the liberas professional#

It is one where affluent, professional voters, particularly women, are placing issues such as climate change, integrity in government, and respect for women, above more bread and butter concerns such as the economy. But on Saturday night the Scott Morrison-led Liberal Party was pole-axed by a tectonic shift in Australian politics. It was an entirely different political landscape back in 1944 when Robert Menzies formed the Liberal Party, and Menzies’ creation went on to hold power in the national parliament for 51 of the next 78 years. Similar inroads by the Greens in Labor and Liberal-held seats in Brisbane have seen the number of lower house cross-bench MPs explode from six to a probable 15.

The bulk of these seats in Victoria, NSW and WA have been won by so- called ‘teal’ independents – highly credentialled female candidates who nominate climate change as their number one priority in an era of devastating floods and bushfires.

#To be barked by the liberas plus#

Huge swings, ranging from 5 per cent to 13 per cent, were recorded in the Liberal Party’s traditional crown jewel seats – Kooyong, which was Menzies’ old electorate, plus Higgins, Goldstein, Wentworth, Mackellar, North Sydney and Curtin. If the latter scenario occurs, Liberal historian Ian Hancock fears a “bloodbath” will take place in the Liberal Party. What is less clear as counting resumes is whether Labor will form a minority government with some cross-bench support, or just fall over the line with 76 out of 151 lower house seats. Just hours into post-election vote-counting, it was clear the Coalition had lost government, and the Liberal Party had been decimated in its own heartland. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.Saturday’s election result has plunged Robert Menzies’ Liberal Party into an existential crisis. The investigations began after former Opposition leader Adrian Dix asked that the RCMP determine if criminal offences were committed in the multicultural outreach plan. In 2017, former Liberal government staffer Brian Bonney pleaded guilty to breach of trust in a scheme to gain ethnic voter support for the Liberals in swing ridings in the 2013 election by improperly using government resources for partisan purposes.īonney was given a nine-month conditional sentence, but Butcher said he was not the architect of the scheme, even though he admitted going well beyond what he was entitled to do as a public servant. director pleads guilty in vote-getting scandal READ MORE: Ex-BC Liberal staffer focused on ‘favourable’ ethnic communities in scandal: lawyer Liberal government’s 2012 leadership election because the evidence fell short of the required standard.ĭavid Butcher said in a statement released Monday that the RCMP found evidence that alleged new membership fees in the run up to the leadership vote were paid by other people and it recommended charges under the Elections Act as well as obstruction.īutcher has now signed off from the case after looking into three separate allegations involving the leadership campaign, the so-called quick-wins scandal in the 2013 provincial election and an allegation of the improper use of public resources in a Port Moody byelection.

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