One Nation’s surge in South Australia is a warning – fiddling at the edges is no longer enough

‘It was clear in the final week of the campaign that Peter Malinauskas – a generational political talent – recognised the risk and sharpened his attack on One Nation,’ Tony Barry writes. Photograph: Matt Turner/AAP

As the ballots are counted in South Australia, it’s now clear that while the Liberal party isn’t politically dead, it’s currently unalive.

The results so far are both simple and complex. While the headline is that Peter Malinauskas and Labor brought the hammer down on the Liberal party, there are other storylines.