To say that things have gone wrong for the Coalition after taking a 52% to 48% two-party preferred lead into the run-up to May’s federal election would be an understatement.
Between a series of major unforced political errors and having their policy platform, which was effectively crafted with crayon, poorly received by the electorate, the Dutton-led Coalition achieved a record result for all the wrong reasons.
Instead of winning government, which some party insiders still expected as late as a week before the election, Dutton led the Coalition to achieve the lowest number of seats in the lower house in the party’s history (adjusted for the size of the lower house).
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