As Peter Datton lost his heart

In the last three years, when the peers of the former Australian Liberal Party leader Peter Datton on frying over his dividing person, they often confess their celebrity status in the north.

“Peter is one of us … It is very popular in Queensnd,” said the leader of the citizens, a liberal coalition partner earlier this year.

But on the night of the election, the Datton’s home state won the work, and the red landslide was supplanted by a veteran deputy from his own Dixon’s place.

While the voices are still counted, Labor can pick up as many electorates in Queensnd as in every other state and the territory in combination.

And this, thanks to, in a small part, a new block of young voters and women who are disappointed with the coalition, and attribute the persistent loss of the party on the “Datton effect”.

Since the 65-year-old coalition voter Sue, who has not shared her last name, directly expresses: “Here (Datton) … People know him and do not like it.”

The Mareton Bay region, approximately one hour north of Brisbane, must be Dutton Hartland. Before the federal election in Australia, all three places were liberal here – though only small leading, with the Daton Dickan electorate the narrowest state.

The Datton family has deep roots here, and his grandparents settled in the area in the 1860s.

When he first entered the parliament 24 years ago, the region consisted of urban pockets and industrial estates surrounded by semi-Selyan land. It is not quite the capital or rural, as a former police officer described it in a girl’s speech as a deputy.

Now Brisbane is one of the fastest growing cities in Australia, and these external northern suburbs are one of the main places in which people are squeezed. The residential building exploded, and more and more families, at the price closer to the city, moved to the Mareton Bay.

The full “quiet Australians”, Datton, said he would lead to his elections, external surroundings similar to this, were at the heart of the coalition strategy.

The average household in Mareton -Bey earns less than the average and average in the country, and many rely on the health, trade and hospitality sector. The coalition hoped that it promised to reduce fuel costs, improve the availability of housing, and small business would be concerned about voters.

Many residents of Mareton -Bey, such as Kenneth King volunteer, also felt that Datton’s connection with the area would give them an incentive.

“I know Peter Datton for many years,” the local Dixon said in the BBC on election day. “He has always been a high character, seriously treating the effective policy and great empathy by ordinary Australians.”

“He is very respected in society … People know him.”

But there is a difference between the well -known and very pleasant, says Alesha, the voter in the neighboring electorate Petri, who refused to give his last name.

“I do not know if he addresses the everyday man,” says a 26-year-old nurse. “He does not put himself in the shoes of people.”

Her vote for many years has moved to a number of parties on the right side on the political spectrum – with the exception of greenery, she adds with a quick laughter.

“I do not sit with any party. Being a Christian, it is regardless of my values, which depending on my values,” she says, adding that the future of her two young children is another major attention.

In this election, this meant that her voice went into the acting coalition of Luke Hoart, whom she personally knows from her church.

But as long as she pray for the miracle, the final voices are still counted, she is not surprised to find out that Hoart can come out.

Labor says very visible companies in the area, but reports the BBC that he was passing the image of Hoart and his leader on the advertising shields that were stuck in her head.

“Unfortunately, I think it did it,” she says.

“Peter Datton’s face behind him was a huge turn – for me personally.”

Sue, who lives in the same electorate and is usually a conservative voter, says the election was torn in voting ballot boxes.

“I had great fluctuations over it,” she says. “I don’t like Albanese; I think it looks weak.

“(But) Datton is an unattractive personality … He believes that he represents himself as strong, but he represents himself as a bully.”

In the end, Sue also voted for Hoart – and she was similarly convinced that Datton lost his place.

“I talked to several friends … Some changed their votes from Peter Dattan,” she says. “People, right or wrong, leveled Datton with Trump. And this is very negative for any intelligent person.”

Many voters who said the BBC said they did not want American style politicians here.

Drew Cutler grew up at Longman’s site, which is divided by both Dixan and Petri, though he no longer lives in the area, the 28-year-old guy was so invested in the results that he returned to the company.

The coalition deputies Terry Young at 3% of the last election, it is now too close to call.

Mr. Katler, a former employee of the Labor Party, believes that the work was carried out by very strong local companies. But he also believes that Datton’s policy has turned over and the aura of instability, which is projected, was powerful.

This included the ad, and then going back, the reduction of jobs and it is planned to stop the arrangement of work with the home, as well as the fluctuating position on electrical vehicles.

Mr. Katler claims that such optics was particularly devastating when the Dautton’s strong, decisive manner is being opposed.

“I almost think that the Australian people would respect him more if he followed it … and said,” This is what I nominate – if you don’t like it, don’t vote for it, “says Mr. Cutler BBC.

Returning to Dixon, Rick is a member of the pensioner and a fresh liberal party – he said on the night of the election, which also felt that confusion had played a role in the party’s defeat, especially among young people.

“I think people couldn’t understand the policy of the Datton,” he said.

But April 30, who did not give her last name, says Datton did not understand.

She cannot remember the time when he was not in power in Dixon, and feels that over time he lost connection with his constituents and the country more widely.

For her last point, his instrumental role in defeat a voice on the referendum of parliament, which sought to recognize the Aboriginal people and the Torres Strait in the Constitution and at the same time to create a parliamentary advisory body for them.

“I think he has caused great damage to many minority groups,” she says.

For others in the electorate, however, the last point was watching Datton flying to Sydney’s funds when the Alfred Cyclone was affected in February.

April did not feel that the proposal of the Labor Party was also strong, especially in climatic actions, so she decided to campaign for Eli Smith, the so -called “teal” of independent seat work.

The disappointment – the embarrassment of the border – that Dautton was from its local area, crystallized: “It seemed to me that it was a duty in a sense … Our responsibility to pull it out.”

Ultimately, the coalition has lost at least six places to work in Quinzend – all bars in Brisbane. And although they are a few votes ahead in Longman, when the count continues, they can still lose it.

Queensland has long been a little political species and is often found in the “spotlights” in the federal election, says Frank Mols.

The Queensland University Lecturer notes that the state helped to achieve Kevin Radd’s historical victory in 2007, and the Wonder Scott Morrison’s victory in 2019. The latest election, when a record number of people across the country voted for candidates outside two major parties, Queensland surprised the nation, giving the trim three places – from none.

There are several factors that make the state more “flying” and are likely to have violations, says D -Mols.

First, it is the only state or territory, except for the island of Tasmania, where more than half the population live outside the Brisbane capital.

“We are talking that Queensland is always two elections, one in the southeast, and then the rest – and they often get completely different samples.”

The state also has more political fragmentation, says D -Mols, which, in combination with the overwhelming voting system of Australia, can make political equations here tightened and tendencies are predicted.

But he, as many voters with whom the BBC talked to a great extent, caused a surprise over the Datton coalition weekend and its widely criticized campaign speech.

Despite the fact that there is a tendency to attribute success or refusal to politics, most often it is really about the emotional reaction of voters to candidates and leaders, says D -Mols.

“If you do a barbecue test, is it a Datton man to whom you approach? This is he who is to warm or strive for?

“You can wonder: Was Peter Datton, back number, the best asset of the Labor Party?”

But Datton may have had the opposite effect for the greenery, which lost at least two of the three places he acquired in Brisbane in 2022. Their party leader Adam Bandt was also defeated in Melbourne, the electorate he spent for 15 years.

“Perhaps in despair (Dautton), he sought cultural problems, as if he would be, and it was punished,” says D -Mols. “But the greenery … which may not have been considered at the other end of this screaming match.”

D -Mols also thinks that despair to avoid Dattan, perhaps some former voters of greenery prefer childbirth – although it shows that independent independent is central to the central relationship seems to have caused this trend.

In any case, he does not see the results in Queensland as the basis of love for work. The state was still the only jurisdiction in Australia, where there were more than the first votes of the coalition than work.

“We need to be enough at the party, but often prefers that it actually tilts her along the line,” he says.

“This is rather a liberal loss.”

For many voters of the coalition, this loss is felt deep. Rick characterizes it as a “real route”.

But among others, such as Alasha, there is an inexplicable element of fun.

“I think it’s pretty funny that he slipped as much as he did,” she says. “And I can’t tell you why.”

Additional Kelly NG reporting.