Labor voters don't accept Prime Minister Julia Gillard as their leader, says Alannah MacTiernan. Picture: Don Arnold/Getty Images Source: Getty Images
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LABOR faces an absolute massacre in the September federal election if it doesn't respond to voter dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Julia Gillard, a former West Australian state Labor MP says.
In the ongoing washup from the weekend state poll in WA, Alannah MacTiernan, now the mayor of the city of Vincent, said it could not be said that federal Labor lost the state election which returned Liberal Colin Barnett with a significant majority.
But she said the overwhelming sentiment from doorstops and shopping centres in Labor's heartland was that voters supported state Labor but not federal Labor and Julia Gillard.
"That was very strong," she said, adding that she would be very concerned if the federal members in WA were viewing Labor's good results in some areas and believing they were safe.
"That's not what people were saying. It's pretty simple and it's pretty brutal and they are saying they don't like Julia Gillard and they don't believe her," she told ABC television.
Ms MacTiernan said she took no pleasure in saying this as Ms Gillard had tried exceptionally hard, putting absolutely everything into it.
"But at the end of the day, the Labor voters have said we don't accept her as our leader. If we do not take note of this, there is going to be an absolute massacre in the federal election," she said.
Following the election, WA Liberals and the Nationals will form a coalition with a predicted 40 seats of 59, while Labor could slide from 27 to 19 seats.
Mr Barnett said it was a bigger than expected win, though he didn't think federal issues played a dominant role in his victory.
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