Plus: Labor under pressure over fuel crisis as federal parliament returns. Follow updates live
Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
Election result ‘better than we were expecting’: Blyth
It’s very grim, but could have been worse, is the message from South Australian federal senator, Leah Blyth, who tells RN Breakfast this morning that when leader Ashton Hurn was elected 100 days ago, “we were projected to win 0 to 3 seats.”
It’s not the election result we were hoping for, obviously, but I think it is much better than we were expecting … It’s very grim but we’re sort of looking at it. It could have been worse. So we’ve got to rebuild.
Discipline and unity. That’s the message that I’m taking. And that we’ve got to make sure that we are putting up policies that are in the interests of Australians at a federal level and that we’ve got to stop talking about ourselves. That is death politically.
I think the biggest message for the federal coalition is that Australia is looking for change. They are rightly aggrieved right now.
They are looking for solutions to their high energy bills, to an out of control immigration policy where they want sensible settings, and they want their standard of living improved and their way of life restored, I think that that is not an unacceptable or unreasonable request.
Continue reading...
