Lib MP takes swipe at party s disastrous 2018 election campaign
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A rising Liberal backbench MP has criticised his party s 2018 law and order campaign that ended in a catastrophic electoral defeat for the Coalition, warning about the dangers of populist tough-on-crime policies.
Eastern Metropolitan MP Matthew Bach, who replaced Mary Wooldridge in State Parliament s upper house last year, took a direct swipe at the law and order policies that placed punitive measures over reformative justice.
Liberal MP Matthew Bach.
Credit:Wayne Taylor
An internal Liberal Party post-mortem released in November 2019 admitted the Coalition s focus on African gangs and crime contributed to its drubbing in the 2018 state election, when it lost 10 of its 37 seats, with massive swings against MPs in some of their traditional heartland seats including Hawthorn.
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