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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Katharine Murphy

If the metropolitan moderates are wiped out next week, the Liberals must learn the right lesson from defeat

Josh Frydenberg speaks with voters in his electorate of Kooyong as as he looks at independent candidate Monique Ryan
‘The fear of losing a potential progressive leader in Josh Frydenberg may be sufficient for voters to rally for the incumbent in Kooyong.’ Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images

We are at that point of the campaign – seven days to go. Both a sprint and an eternity. Not enough time and too much time. Enough time to win and enough time to lose.

Campaigns have seasons. We’ve entered the final season of this political cycle, the season where the soft votes firm. Strategists say the contest is much closer than the published polls suggest. I don’t think they are lying, so the way soft voters break will determine the outcome, pushing either party into a win, loss or minority government.

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