Federal Member of Parliament Alan Tudge said the Morrison government’s harsh language towards Beijing lost the Liberal Party votes from the Chinese Australian community in Victoria.
“I think the Chinese Australian vote was very significant and went against us hard,” he told Sky News Australia on May 23.
“I’ve looked pretty closely around Box Hill and Glen Waverley, for example, they’re the two real heartlands of Chinese Australians, and there were swings of 16 percent against us in those booths.”
“Some of the feedback that I’ve been receiving was that they were unhappy with some of our very strong stance in the language which we’ve been using in relation to the Chinese Communist Party’s position.”…