An ousted Liberal Party politician has blamed her moderate colleagues for the Coalition’s crushing defeat at the federal election.

Amanda Stoker lost her Queensland senate seat to Greens newcomer Penny Allman-Payne but says her party “caving to leftist positions” was her undoing.

She told Ray Hadley the party was punished as once-rusted-on voters deserted its ‘wet’ candidates.

“The people who were punished by their electorate were those from our party who were most left-wing,” she said.

The former senator, now a fortnightly columnist for The Australian Financial Review, argued the Coalition needs to digs its heels in further and focus on winning back deserting conservative voters.

“Just because we had spectacular changes in some of those left-leaning places, it doesn’t mean the answer is to become more left-wing.

“[That] would be to learn the exact wrong lesson from the experience.”

Press PLAY below to hear Amanda Stoker reflect her party’s prospects under Peter Dutton