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Saul Eslake

The lessons for the Liberals in Gutwein’s triumph

Although the Liberals have achieved their aim of preserving their one-seat majority, it wasn’t a particularly good result for them.

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Saturday’s Tasmanian state election turned out to be a personal triumph for Premier Peter Gutwein.

He received more than 48 per cent of the vote in his electorate of Bass – a figure only exceeded once before in Tasmanian electoral history.

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Saul Eslake is former chief economist of ANZ Bank and of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Australia, and is now principal of Corinna Economic Advisory based in Hobart.

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