“these so-called spontaneous community movements, by apparently complete coincidence, appeared in a range of Liberal seats and made no appearance in Labor seats”.

Well, yeah, they were originally Liberal members, of course they’d be campaigning in Liberal seats.

“The intention was to get people to think, ‘That nice teal candidate could almost be a Liberal, I’ll vote for her.’”

Almost like the Teals are Liberals that differ on one or two key policies.

The fact that he’s blaming preferential voting is worrying, I expect the Libs will start adopting that stance across the board soon. Our system isn’t perfect, but it’s much better than the absolute shitshow that is first past the post.