Sky News host Peta Credlin says to their credit, the Labor Party “has produced an election review that's honest, fair, and after today, public”. An unpopular leader, weak strategy and a cluttered policy agenda were lethal to Labor's May 18 bid, a review into the party's election loss has found.
The much anticipated post-mortem, spearheaded by former cabinet minister Craig Emerson and former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill, handed down 60 findings and 26 recommendations to the national executive on Thursday. Ms Credlin said the report didn't "shy away” from “tackling” then-Labor leader Bill Shorten’s “unpopularity” head on. “The bigger problem for Labor was that its policies alienated large slabs of decent, ordinary people,” Ms Credlin said.
But still shows they don’t understand ‘middle Australyy it a’ or the ‘silent majority’ - and I have read the document!!!