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Coalition policies ‘buried’ by ‘campaign headquarters’, Liberal senators say
Andrew Hastie has blamed the poor handling of policy issues for the Liberal debacle.
I don’t know. It was done by campaign headquarters the Thursday night before the election. My media release was withdrawn and a lot of incredible hard work by my team and many others right across the Coalition, unfortunately, didn’t see the light of day. There were too many policies that were left on the cutting-room floor, and I think that was a really big problem, not just in education, despite the very good work of many shadow ministers – too many taxation policies that were not pushed forward, housing policy delivered on the run, a defence policy looking like an afterthought.
Something went off the rails, and I think it was centred in campaign headquarters. We were, frankly, in a very competitive position … and that completely evaporated to the point where we are at an historic low as an opposition. And I think there are some people who might want to consider their futures as a result of that.