As the bloodletting continues within the Coalition, it is coming to terms with being abandoned by "quiet struggling Australians". In Queensland two of the shock losses were Forde and Petrie.
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00:00From blue to red in outer Brisbane's battler suburbs, shock winds for Labor.
00:09Seats like Petrie and Ford frankly weren't even on our radar as being possible at this
00:13election.
00:14Some living in Logan lost faith in the coalition.
00:16A lot of my friends who tend to vote LNP just didn't seem to like Peter Dutton very much.
00:23Rowan Holzberger won an almost 6% swing to Labor, unseating 15-year incumbent Burt Van
00:30Mannen.
00:31Some voting Labor for the first time.
00:33I think the policies were probably not the right things to have, you know, nuclear power.
00:39I don't think, where are they going to put these plants?
00:42We've got people down in tents and so forth, you know, and it's families and stuff and it's
00:46really hard for some people.
00:47Those sentiments from Ford have been echoed in outer suburbs around the South East.
00:52From Bonner to Peter Dutton's former seat of Dixon and here in Petrie, they've all switched
00:58from the LNP to Labor.
01:00I think the ALP brand just stood way and above everything that was on offer.
01:08Peter Dutton, the good man that he was, was very reserved and he wasn't the sort of person
01:15that you feel you could rush up to and say, you know, pat him on the back.
01:18I think what we saw across the weekend was a demonstration against what's going on in
01:25America with Trump.
01:26One political analyst says former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard wooed voters in
01:31the outer suburbs in the early 2000s, selling families messages full of hope and aspiration.
01:37There wasn't much hope and aspiration in the message of the LNP of the Liberal Party going
01:43forward.
01:44In fact, it was a fairly bleak message about getting back on track.
01:47Cost and living and the housing crisis, all critical factors.
01:50Murray Watt says the plans to axe working from home was the final nail in the coffin.
01:56I think went down like a lead balloon in those outer suburban suburbs.
01:59Voters just want their new MPs to get to work.