The document has not been released publicly and was provided to Guardian on the condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 2025 election proved that being one of the loudest media voices in the room does not mean voters are listening to you,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n
\u201cViewership data shows that most Australians do not engage with overtly political commentary on traditional media, such as evening commentators on Sky News. Yet much of our party\u2019s policy agenda and media appearances during the campaign were stuck in a conservative echo-chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sign up: AU Breaking News email<\/a><\/p>\n Labor won 94 seats, its biggest victory in decades, while the Coalition<\/a> was reduced to 43 seats in the lower house.<\/p>\n Pointing to Dutton directly, the submission said the parliamentary leader must \u201cfront up\u201d to a range of media outlets, including those not considered \u201ctraditionally friendly\u201d to the Liberal and Nationals parties.<\/p>\n Ahead of his 3 May defeat, Dutton did the opposite. He was criticised for not regularly fronting the Canberra press gallery in the lead-up to the campaign and dubbed the ABC and Guardian \u201chate media\u201d<\/a> in the final days before the poll.<\/p>\n The Young Liberals called out senior figures for demonising Chinese-Australians and exacerbating division related to war in the Middle East.<\/p>\n Frontbencher Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was criticised for declaring a Dutton government would \u201cmake Australia great again,\u201d echoing Trump\u2019s slogan just as the Coalition was trying to distance itself from the unpopular US president\u2019s policies and rhetoric.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Coalition must refrain from pursuing culture war issues and respect the intelligence of the Australian people by formulating nuanced, meaningful policy,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n![\"'We](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6268.jpg\")
‘We got smashed’: Sussan Ley reflects on Coalition’s historic election defeat \u2013 video<\/p>\n