Shadow Minister for Finance Jane Hume.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen
Hume is working with former federal director Brian Loughnane on a review of the Liberals’ crushing defeat in the May federal election.
That review is close to being finalised and will examine the myriad issues facing the Liberal Party,including a low number of female MPs,how the campaign was lost and how to win over new supporters.
The review had beenheld back until after the state election and a decision has not been taken on how much,if any of it,will be publicly released.
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Federally,the Coalition slumped to hold just 11 of Victoria’s 39 seats at the May election and at state level the party has won just one election since 1999.
Hume said it was a positive her party appeared likely to hang on to Kew and Mornington against strong challenges from independents,and potentially beat another independent to reclaim Hawthorn from Labor.
“I think we have blocked every teal[candidate] so that clutching of pearls about abandoning those seats is wrong,” she said.