Too little too late: voters turn on Morrison in affluent seat of Higgins

‘I’m really, really worried about what will happen to our country if there’s three more years of this.’ Alison Baker, owner of Alison’s corner shop in Prahran in the federal seat of Higgins in Melbourne’s inner east, says she knows who she will vote for in the Australian election. Photograph: Ellen Smith/The Guardian

It’s been almost a week since prime minister Scott Morrison conceded he was a “bit of a bulldozer” and vowed to change the way he behaved if re-elected. But for voters in the marginal seat of Higgins, in Melbourne’s inner east, it’s too little too late.

Alison Baker says Morrison “lacks any integrity or accountability”, citing the sports rorts scandal, his handling of Covid-19 and the sizeable debt in the budget borrowed before the start of the pandemic.