Paul Erickson says it was "odd and then galling" that the Coalition engaged in "an all-out assault on state and territory Labor Governments" mid covid pandemic. #auspol #npc
Erickson criticises:
* Morrison reducing press conferences
* Backing Clive Palmers WA border challenge
* Criticising Palaszczuk
* Undermining Vic health response.
#auspol #npc
* Morrison reducing press conferences
* Backing Clive Palmers WA border challenge
* Criticising Palaszczuk
* Undermining Vic health response.
#auspol #npc
Erickson applying a gender lens to the covid response, noting Coalition govt's supposed heroes of the pandemic were all men; they ended free childcare; and Morrison's suggestion to solve women giving birth roadside w upgrade of Barton Highway rather than a maternity ward.
Erickson says after the gendered violence/sexual assault reckoning, two Morrison comments kept coming up in research:
* women's marchers lucky not to be met with bullets
* he understood issues as husband and father.
* women's marchers lucky not to be met with bullets
* he understood issues as husband and father.
Erickson notes the Liberals thought net zero would see off the independent challenge.
"we never saw any evidence Morrison persuaded anyone... of his commitment to the climate ... hardly surprising given the empty & desperately political nature of where he landed" #auspol #npcs
"we never saw any evidence Morrison persuaded anyone... of his commitment to the climate ... hardly surprising given the empty & desperately political nature of where he landed" #auspol #npcs
"Being serious about the climate was critical to Labor gains in Bennelong, Chisholm, Higgins and Boothby, and being serious about jobs drove swings towards Labor in the Hunter and Central Queensland." - Erickson. #auspol #npc
Paul Erickson argues the 8 factors in the Coalition loss were institutional, not personal to Scott Morrison, and they were failures that snr ministers including Peter Dutton and Josh Frydenberg were actively involved in. #auspol #npc 
Erickson dismisses the Labor are going backwards in the suburbs thesis, by noting the breadth of Labor's winning Coalition, and swings TO it in suburbs and regions.
#auspol #npc
#auspol #npc
* coalition
Erickson says at next election Labor "won't be fighting Scott Morrison although we will be up against some of his nastier and more incompetent enablers." #auspol #npc
Erickson says there are "a number of issues" with election laws that will be scrutinised. Says he won't "make policy", but the 2019 review encouraged Labor to consider support for truth in political advertising. #auspol #npc
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