This week, Liberal Senator James Paterson joins Latika Takes: The Podcast to discuss what went wrong for the Coalition opposition in the recent Australian election.

A close ally of the former and fallen leader Peter Dutton, Senator Paterson was the Coalition’s campaign spokesman and was embedded in the Coalition Campaign’s headquarters in Parramatta, Sydney, throughout the five-week campaign.

He said he was shocked to learn the day after the defeat that the Liberals’ internal pollster, Dr Mike Turner of Freshwater Strategy, had factored in voter behaviour during the failed Voice referendum to calculate what was inaccurate polling for the Coalition.

Senator Paterson admits the Coalition lost its way on key policies, including tax and nuclear and prized unity about policy debates.

Hailing his political hero, former Liberal Senator Nick Minchin, who now says he is open to quotas to rebuild the party and get more women into parliament for the centre-right, he prefers a David Cameron A-List approach.

Senator Paterson also outlines what he thinks will be the global and domestic battlelines for politics in the next three years.

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