Population ponzi doomed as Labor moves to outflank Hanson

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As predicted, it’s on like Donkey Kong, from former Labor QLD senator John Black at The Australian:

If you want to know where to find the local version of the voters who this week made Donald Trump president-elect, take a look at the provincial city and outer urban seats that recorded the biggest two-party preferred swings to Bill Shorten and the ALP at the past federal election.

The same seats swinging to Labor also contained the biggest Senate primary votes for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party, as the Opposition Leader and Hanson tapped into hostility to the status quo from big groups of semi-skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers, single mothers, fundamentalist Christians and families with lots of children.

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.