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Thanks for your company today where the focus has been on the fallout from the remarkable, tectonic result in the Farrer byelection.
The ABC’s chief election analyst Casey Briggs reckons it is likely the first time “in modern political history” that the two-candidate final count in any federal electorate has been fought out between two candidates not from a “major” political party – Labor, the Liberals or the Nationals.
The Guardian’s own Tom McIlroy points out that Farrer has sent either a Liberal or a National to Canberra at every election in its near 70-year existence .
One Nation has won a lower house seat for the first time. And we’re hoping we helped you make sense of it all today. Here’s what we learned: The former opposition leader, and outgoing Farrer MP, Sussan Ley says “the voters never get it wrong” in the wake of a historically low combined Liberal and National vote in Farrer.
Pauline Hanson says major parties “disregarded and disrespected voters” and described her critics as “bitter”.
The Liberals’ incumbent deputy, Jane Hume, admits voters lost trust in the Coalition .
Shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, a former strident critic of One Nation, was forced to confront the prospect of the Liberals directing further preferences, or even seeking to govern in tandem with the rising rightwing populist party. He says the party needs to be “bigger, better, bolder” .
The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, who has flagged an extra $2bn for infrastructure in the budget , says Farrer was a “bloodbath” for the Coalition and leaves Labor the only party in the “sensible centre” of Australian politics.
