Coalition senator James McGrath is also on the ABC, and he is defending the Coalition’s campaign, which let’s be clear, no matter where the votes land tonight, was an absolute shit show.

When people and focus groups were given an example of this is plan A and Plan B, people clearly preferred our plan.

The challenge for us is that my view has always been at the Prime Minister was going to call an election in May and I was on the record for that because the Labor Party needed to do two things. They needed to rebuild their economic narrative and they needed another budget to do that.

Because the cost of living has been the number one issue in Australia.

…In terms of what did Labor need to do, they needed a later election because they needed to try to do something about cost-of-living because they were behind in relation to that but they also needed to run a God Almighty scare campaign against Peter Dutton and that is what we have seen.