Liberals left after the defeat

The opposition party of Australia has been left after a bruising in Saturday’s federal elections, with a result that the worst loss ever is.

Peter Dutton, the leader of the Liberal Party, also lost his own seat of Dickson, which he had held over the past 24 years.

Labor’s landslide victory means that the liberal party is now looking to find a new leader – and find out what went wrong for them this election cycle.

Some members of the liberal party members have called for a “serious assessment”, in which one adviser summarizes the loss as a failure of “The Dutton Experiment”.

Dutton has also become the first federal opposition leader who once loses their own seat and at the same time loses an election, which means that he has been driven out of parliament.

Labor’s Ali France Dutton defeated Dickson in Queensland in his home base.

In his first public appearance after the emphatic victory of Labor, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the media outside a cafe in Sydney on Sunday that “the Australian people voted for unity instead of division”.

The most crushing losses of the liberal party were in the most important cities of Australia, where party members were almost wiped out in metropolitan areas, including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Liberal MP Keith Wolahan has called for a “serious assessment” of the systemic issues that have led to the shock destruction of the party.

“You have to acknowledge that things went wrong,” he told the Insiders program of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

“We have to listen to Australians. They sent us a message, and our first task is to hear it. And that often takes time.”

Wolahan represents the seat of Menzies in Victoria and said it was very likely that he would also lose his chair.

When asked if Peter Dutton himself was the problem, Wolahan immediately refused to answer, but said he has a lot of respect for the liberal leader.

Some were Botter, such as Andrew Carswell, a former adviser to the last Liberal Prime Minister of Australia, who told the ABC “the Dutton experiment failed”.

He described the loss of Saturday as “a complete catastrophe for the coalition”, of which he said he showed that Australians had “clear hesitation with Peter Dutton”.

The imminent presence of Donald Trump has also been cited as an important factor for thwarting the already inconsistent Dutton campaign, where many people draw parallels between him and the American president.

The loss of Dutton has now started the scrambling for a new leader of the liberal party.

Carswell was hopeful about the prospect of some “very good emerging liberal parliamentary members” who were in leadership roles.

He is most likely contenders for the top job his shadow treasurer Angus Taylor and deputy leader Sussan Ley.

Shadow Immigration Minister Dan Tehan and Minister of Defense Andrew Hastie have also been mentioned.

But without a clear leader, the liberal party will have to try to regroup in the coming days – and develop a new strategy to reclaim the voters that they lost.