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Morrison delivers victory speech in the presence of leaders and supporters of the coalition

The coalition challenges the expectations and media campaigns and achieved a historic victory




Morrison celebrates victory in the presence of leaders and supporters of the coalition

The coalition challenges the expectations and media campaigns and achieved a historic victory

(Translation appears in Arabic section)

Sydney: Scott Morrison has earnt a permanent place as a Liberal Party legend — returning the Government in what was meant to be an unwinnable election for the Coalition.

Mr Morrison smashed the doctrine that disunity will lead to electoral death.

Despite three prime ministers in two terms of government, the Queensland swing to back the Coalition and swings in Tasmania and WA showed that ultimately jobs and fear of change are too dominant.

The Prime Minister made the campaign all about economic management and himself — out-campaigning Labor by running a brutal and stunning campaign demolishing Labor's big-target policy agenda.

Mr Morrison made the campaign a referendum on him and Bill Shorten, and downplayed the Liberal brand — cultivating a new Scott Morrison image and promising to be a steady pair of hands on the economy.

He told a packed crowd of Liberal supporters in Sydney he had always believed in miracles.

"And tonight we've been delivered another one," he said.

The 'new' Morrison

Labor took a big risk campaigning on big changes to tax loop holes including franking credits and negative gearing, allowing Mr Morrison to spend every day of the campaign casting doubt on the way Labor would remake the country.

The marketing metamorphosis of Mr Morrison, from the tough-on-borders hard head to the daggy suburban dad next door, was an important and strategic pivot for a party with a diminished frontbench and deep ideological schisms in its ranks.

His message was sharp, piercing and he never deviated from the one central claim — that Labor was a high-taxing risk to the economy and Mr Shorten would take money "from your pocket".

By contrast, Labor drifted from message to message — it started on health, moved to wages and staggered into climate change.

Mr Morrison proved to be a formidable campaigner who crashed over the revolving prime minister question by formulating the "Canberra bubble" answer that neutralised the question and its sting.

Labor strategists say Mr Shorten's negative personal rating was a big issue throughout the campaign — that voters never warmed to him despite attempts to soften his image through the use of his wife Chloe and the talented women on his frontbench.

Labor left to pick up the pieces

The official Labor party function on election night was like a wake. The Labor faithful were in shock and disbelief that the nation had repudiated their message of fairness and come at them with "baseball bats" in Queensland in particular.

Mr Shorten's address was raw and emotional, but gracious.

"This has been a tough campaign. Toxic at times. But now that the contest is over, all of us have a responsibility to respect the result, respect the wishes of the Australian people and to bring our nation together," he said.

"I wish we could have won for the true believers, for our brothers and sisters in the mighty trade union movement.

"I wish we could have done it for Bob."

He delivered the kind of speech the Labor Party — and the nation — needed right now, with a call for unity at its heart.

(ABC)








 














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