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Are the Australian election results a bad sign for the Tories?

24 May 2022

6:49 PM

24 May 2022

6:49 PM

Scott Morrison’s Liberals were absolutely thrashed in the Australian elections this weekend. The party’s vote collapsed, and there were big-name defeats, with the man touted as Morrison’s successor – Josh Frydenberg – ousted in Kooyong, a suburb which had been in the party’s hands for 121 years.

Whatever went wrong for the Morrison government, Saturday’s results might have relevance closer to home.

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