The dominant reason for Labor’s landslide victory in South Australia is that the party led by Peter Malinskasus has been a moderate, progressive party seeking to meet the basic needs of the people.

Yet among all the bewildering, self-defeating decisions of the South Australian division of the Liberal Party in the lead-up to Saturday’s wipeout, preferencing One Nation was at the top.

That was bad enough, but failing to require preferences from One Nation in return probably gives this one-sided preference deal the gold medal for stupidity.

Let’s see if the federal Liberals and Nationals have learned anything from this clanger in the forthcoming Farrer byelection when they will compete against each other, One Nation and a........

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