Liberal Senator Anne Ruston turns to AI in a bid to understand the crushing election defeat

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Liberal Senator Anne Ruston turns to AI in a bid to understand the crushing election defeat

Liberal Senator Anne Ruston says “all options” must be on the table in reviewing the Coalition’s “disastrous” 2025 election loss and has even turned to artificial intelligence in a bid to understand the crushing defeat.

The party’s defeat marked its worst showing in decades, suffering significant losses across urban and outer-suburban seats, particularly among women and younger voters.

Senator Ruston said in the days after the election she tapped into an “off-the-shelf” AI tool as part of efforts to understand voter sentiment and analyse commentary.

“I just used some, you know, off-the-shelf AI, just to ask what AI thought about the Liberal Party and the election result. There was no clear theme that came out of it,” she told ABC on Sunday.

“It basically said that the product offering that we took to the *********** public, where quite clearly, Australians did not support and we need to go back to the drawing board.

“More than anything, it showed me that there were so many different issues that Australians were considering when they went to the ballot box to vote.”

While traditional review processes are underway — involving consultations with party members and MPs — Senator Ruston said technology should play a supporting role in analysing what went wrong.

“There’s many ways that we need to address this. We need to speak to our party members. We need to speak to the front bench and the back bench,” Senator Ruston said.

“We need to speak to the *********** public. But obviously, technology gives us an opportunity to be able to collate the broader commentary across Australia.

“That’s something that we probably haven’t had access to before, and we should use that as well. Every tool that’s available, should be used.”

Senator Ruston also backed new leader Sussan Ley, with Ted O’Brien elected deputy, to modernise the party and predicted being “extraordinarily fair” would be a hallmark of her leadership.

“Sussan has made it very clear that she’s going to be ultra consultative in her process,” she said.

“I think Sussan Ley is absolutely right in saying she’s not going to pre-judge, she’s not going to make any captain’s calls. She’s got to look at absolutely everything.

“To be quite frank, we have to build from the bottom up again, because that election result was quite disastrous for the Liberal Party. We need to be open and honest with ourselves about what we need to take forward.”

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