Tasmania's most senior Liberal says a Canberra-centric campaign caused the party's electoral wipeout in Tasmania. The Liberal Party lost two lower house MPs as voters resoundingly opted for Labor instead.
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00:00After a sad Saturday, a smaller Liberal Party has to work out what went wrong in Tasmania.
00:09Its most senior politician pointing the finger squarely at party headquarters.
00:14Here in Tasmania we knew some time ago that we were in trouble.
00:18Sadly the national campaign ploughed on, almost tone deaf and blind to some of the warning signs.
00:25Claiming inaccurate internal polling meant the party took far too long to realise a red wave of Labor support was sweeping the state.
00:33Our poll start was way off the mark and our lack of policy coherence throughout the national campaign did not help in any way at all.
00:42Retiring after six years in Braddon, Gavin Pearce watched from the sidelines as his replacement Mal Hingston fell well short.
00:50Labor's Ann Urquhart achieving a whopping 15% swing in a thumping victory.
00:56I don't think it was any one thing. I think it was a culmination of many things put together.
01:02Ousted Bass MP Bridget Archer warning her party can't afford to shift further to the right as it works out a way forward.
01:09If there is no place for people like me in the Liberal Party, then that is a sad day for democracy.
01:16There's a chance things could get worse for the Liberals when counting continues in the Senate.
01:21Its first preference vote fell by 10%, leaving Senator Richard Colbeck locked in a four-way battle for two spots.
01:28With Jackie Lambie, Labor's Bailey Falls and One Nation's Lee Hansen, the daughter of party founder Pauline Hansen.
01:35On what is available so far and based on the size of the swings in the House of Reps, it is not yet clear to me that Richard Colbeck has retained his seat.
01:47Despite conjecture, state issues like a Hobart AFL stadium played a role in the result.
01:52The Tasmanian government says it's not spooked by the Liberal wipeout.
01:56We believe that Tasmanians know the difference between state and federal policies and politics.
02:01Hoping a more popular leader is enough to avoid a similar election wipeout.
02:06That's right.
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