Britain's Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn's unexpected success has raised questions on how the ALP should move forward. Credit:Frank Augstein "But if we are lazy, we will take the wrong ones," he said. "It would be lazy and wrong to simply look at what worked superficially – a few slogans and stickers – and not look at the underlying causes." Senator Dastyari said the lessons he took from the result was "everyone hates the political establishment and you can't be anti-establishment enough", a need for strong grassroots campaigning and authenticity. "Standing for something will always beat standing for nothing – even if people aren't invested in what that something is," he said. "People are desperate for conviction over empty platitudes."

Sam Dastyari says Jeremy Corbyn's success shows that "Standing for something will always beat standing for nothing". Credit:Alex Ellinghausen But Senator Dastyari, who sits in the Labor right faction, doesn't believe that means his party should shift to the left, instead interpreting it as "having clear, firm positions". Victorian Labor MP Andrew Giles also saw the need for conviction, taking to social media following the UK results with the message "hope, authenticity, and policies which respond directly to the challenges of inequality are the best antidote to cynical austerity". Mr Giles wasn't the only left-wing Labor MP to praise Mr Corbyn's performance – Doug Cameron also highlighted his "progressive policies, a focus on tackling inequality and a commitment to fairness" in his message, while others co-oped the "for the many, not the few" slogan. As did ALP leader Bill Shorten, who responded to the UK results on Friday with a warning to Malcolm Turnbull to "look at the popularity of that message in the context that he is giving a tax cut to a few millionaires and to a few multinationals and he's increasing taxes on the many".

On Saturday, he was still pondering that slogan – and how it related to his opponent. "I think Mr Turnbull should look carefully at that message – Australians want to see governments delivering for them, not just the top end of town," he said. However senior lecturer in politics at Monash University, Nick Economou, cautioned Australia's political parties from reacting too rashly in response to the UK result. "The first thing that should always be said is while there are great similarities between the British political system and the Australian one, British elections are very different," he said. "There you have optional voting not compulsory voting and you don't have preferential voting and we also don't have that strong third party system that we see in Britain.

"So, because of compulsory voting, because of how the electorate is structured, it would be very unwise for Australian Labor to take a lead from British Labour in how to tailor a message to the voters." That's because Australia's elections are usually won by voters in the outer-urban and inner regional seats, Dr Economou said, who tend to be "more pragmatic". However he did see a similarity between Mrs May's ill-fated campaign and the result of Mr Turnbull's double dissolution. Loading "Let's call it 'shooting-yourself-in-the-footism'," he said. "There is a sense that the people running politics in the centre, are not really in touch with the people who count."

Mr Turnbull is yet to comment on whether he sees any lessons from the UK result, but has left a message for Mrs May "passing on his congratulations", with a phone call scheduled between the two leaders for Saturday night.