Politics will now be greener, more feminine, and more emphatically Australian, writes Nick Bryant.
Victory belongs to Anthony Albanese, only the fourth Labor leader since the war to oust a Liberal prime minister, but the 2022 Australian election was primarily a rejection of Scott Morrison and the brand of politics he has come to personify.
Tumbling down have come the walls of conservative citadels. Parliamentary seats where Liberals had for generations dominated now look like barren lands. In Melbourne, the party looks to have lost the seat of Kooyong, which was once the fiefdom of Robert Menzies, Australia's longest serving prime minister, and which had remained faithfully conservative since Federation.The same electoral dynamics played out. A party that has become fixated in recent decades with attracting working class battlers in traditional Labor strongholds has lost touch with Tesla-driving professionals in blue-ribbon seats.
Labor's phobia of alienating voters in this mining and resources hub has had a paralysing effect on its approach to climate change.If parts of Queensland become "Greensland" then the ground has truly shifted beneath our feet.The success of the Greens and the rise of the independents explains why the two major parties, the Liberals and Labor, slumped to a record-low primary vote .
My sense during the campaign was that the Labor leader never fully addressed his prime ministerial plausibility problem. His gaffes did not help .
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