https://www.noticer.news/liberal-election-defeat-immigration-blamed/Aussies blame Peter Dutton’s crushing election defeat on weak immigration policy
May 4, 2025
The Noticer
Australians have unleashed at the Liberals after their humiliating election losses, with many laying the blame on the centre-right “conservative” party’s weak immigration policy.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his own seat on Saturday night along with at least 12 other Liberal Party MPs after a two-party swing of more than 3% to Labor dealt the Coalition a crushing defeat.
It was also a bad night for the Greens, who lost two seats with another two in doubt amid a 0.3% fall in their national vote as of Sunday afternoon, and One Nation fell short of expectations, receiving only 6.2% of the vote so far after pre-election polls indicated a 7-10% share.
Right-wing and conservative voters responded to the results by saying the Coalition should have taken a stronger stance on immigration, free speech and wokeness.
“What an embarrassment. All Dutton had to do was campaign on ending immigration, ending DEI and Net Zero …and he would’ve won in a LANDSLIDE,” one Australian wrote in a viral X post.
“Instead… he was a weakling and even lost his seat It’s almost like he did this on purpose.”
“This defies all logic. By any measure, Albanese ran the worst government in our nation‘s history. They should have been smashed,” former Liberal MP turned NSW Libertarian candidate Craig Kelly, who looks unlikely to have picked up a senate spot, wrote, but his commenters blamed Mr Dutton’s approach.
“Millions of recent immigrants who have only paid tax for a couple of years voted for massive socialism. No defiance of logic at all,” one commenter wrote.
“Liberal didn’t offer an alternative Craig. If Dutton came out saying he would put freedom of speech in the constitution and reduce immigration by 80% he would have won in a landslide. It was just a case of the devil you know. Entirely unsurprising to me,” said another.
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