And here is that whole answer where Anthony Albanese seeks to exploit what is coming up in the focus groups – that the Liberal party has gone too far to the right and Dutton is a Temu version of Donald Trump. This is one of the under currents of the campaign – which is entirely on vibes – but the vibes are starting to take hold:

Peter Dutton lost another candidate overnight. I think the women of Australia will be asking themselves what is going on when Peter Dutton can endorse a bloke who has the views that he put forward over a long period of time, was a former candidate for the UAP. This is a part of the takeover of the Liberal Party by the hard right.

When you look at Alex Antic being number one on the ticket, he’s got his Shadow Health Minister at number two, a woman, Anne Ruston, who I would have some policy disagreements with on Medicare, but she’s the Shadow Health Minister. She’s been a Senior Minister in the Government, dumped for Alex Antic in South Australia.

In Victoria, here, you have a rump taking over. I mean, Jacinta’s opponent got hunted down by the right wing of the Victorian Liberal Party. You’ve got in WA all sorts of strange people with some very far right views who had to get dumped. There was a candidate every week going out. Roger Cook, it was hard for him to keep up during the State Election.

Goodness knows who they’re running in the Federal Election. They knocked off their sitting Members, Ian Goodenough knocked off, he’s running as an Independent. Poor old Member for Monash, he’d represented his local community for decades, he’s the Father of the House, I think, or maybe Bob Katter, but they’ve been there a long time. They knocked him off in preselection, just discarded, views weren’t right wing enough. I’m pretty confident we’ll be arguing not just to hold seats, but to win seats here in Victoria.