But, despite what polls were predicting about the Coalition's fortunes right up to the morning of May 18, Mr Taylor said on Sunday that he also "never believed" the LNP would lose, either.

"I am deeply suspicious of what I call the Canberra bubble; what the Prime Minister also calls the Canberra bubble," he said, talking about public perceptions being skewed by polls.

"I'm deeply suspicious because... you'll understand this... when I go into the Press Gallery, it is teeming with people. [But] when I go into my local press offices, they are almost empty," he said.

"Journalism has lost its grassroots and I firmly believe we have got to re-find the grassroots in the way we communicate.

"As someone who grew up reading rural, regional newspapers, and listening to local radio, we've been losing something here.

"Failure to predict how people will behave is a result of that."

Touche, Mr Taylor. The grassroots have been mowed, scythed, sheared and trimmed by ever-diminishing economies of scale, led by technological evolution and the spread of social media.

The Goulburn Post of 1993 had 41 personnel; now, a quarter of that. And neighbouring papers in Hume, such as the Crookwell Gazette and Boorowa News, are one-reporter operations.

Meantime, the electorate grows apace: in population, in education, in vocation; and in expectation, in a 24/7 media cycle that is largely domiciled in and directed from the capital cities.

If you, like Mr Taylor, want to burst that bubble, then clarity begins at home (to tweak an age-old proverb). Your local media is exactly that: local. Speak up, speak out.