Breaking: Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has accepted responsibility for the Liberal Party’s historic byelection defeat in Aston, saying the party’s brand had “suffered terribly” in Victoria over recent years.
, held by the Liberals since 1990, was the first time in a century that a sitting government has won a seat from the opposition in a byelection.
program on Sunday, Dutton pointed to longstanding difficulties in the nation’s second most populous state, saying: “Our brand has suffered terribly in Victoria.”, Dutton said he expected to lead the party to the next election. Dutton said he was proud the Liberal Party had not gone through a “period of self-destruction” in opposition under his leadership as had occurred in the past.
The Liberal Party last week suspended Victorian state MP Moira Deeming for attending an anti-transgender rights protest in Melbourne that was crashed by neo-Nazis.“There are very strong views within many parts of Australian society.
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