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Hello, happy Monday and welcome to The Briefing.

I'm Sasha Barbagad.

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But should you actually?

That chat with a leading infectious disease expert is coming up in the second half of this episode.

First, let's kick off the week with the headlines and Chris Spirou on Monday the 11th of May.

Candidate David Farley won the seat with 57.4% of the vote.

That included preferences from the coalition over independent candidate Michelle Millthorpe, who's on 42.6% at the time of recording.

It's worth noting counting is still underway.

Now, the Liberal Party copped a 30% swing against it in the vote to finish up third.

So this horrendous result has actually started internal rumblings, Chris, about the coalition's leadership, according to some reports.

Yeah, well, Susan Lee issued a very pointed statement, probably echoing, Chris, your sentiment.

She said, on the day the leadership spilled in February, the new leader said the Liberal Party needed to, quote, change or die.

Three months later, the result in Farah demonstrates that statement to be far truer today than it ever was then.

Those comments definitely had some bite from the former leader of the Liberal Party.

Well, it's politically responsible given that we are trying to cool inflation.

And if you give people extra money, guess what they do?

They spend it.

So, yes, I think that there was quite a bit of criticism when this kind of started being reported last week that there was going to be this little sweetener in the budget.