View from The Hill: Dunkley byelection a poor result for Peter Dutton’s pitch for the outer suburbs

View from The Hill: Dunkley byelection a poor result for Peter Dutton’s pitch for the outer suburbs

The government’s easy retention of the Melbourne seat of Dunkley at Saturday’s byelection is a poor result for Peter Dutton. The two-party swing against the government is modest – 4% (soon after 10 pm). This swing is in the conventional range of byelection swings – although there are multiple measures of those swings, and each side has been promoting its preferred one. For all the media hype and some serious Labor fears beforehand, the story…