To ignore the party’s broader decline in metropolitan areas and treat the byelection loss as an anomaly would be disastrous
The Liberal candidate, Roshena Campbell, was a brilliant woman from a diverse background, but Labor’s Mary Doyle lived closer to the Aston electorate for longer, and drew stronger local support as a result.
That is not an encouraging sign. Rather than casting the Coalition as a broad church that encompasses moderates and conservatives, in the cities and the regions, he continued to narrow his messaging and in turn the party’s appeal. But the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, and the arts minister, Tony Burke, framed the spending as an investment in national pride.
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