Via The Guardian:
Australian voters are resoundingly sick of their bitterly polarised politics and a sizeable group says they would consider voting for a new centrist political party, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll.
The new survey of 1,830 voters found 71% agreement with the statement “I wish both sides of politics would try to meet each other in the middle more often” and 45% said they would consider voting for a new party that took ideas from both sides of politics.
A total of 45% of the sample agreed with the statement, “Political parties in Australia are too ideological.”
The latest weekly opinion survey has Labor continuing with a commanding lead over the Coalition on the two-party preferred measure, 54% to 46% – which is the same result as last week.
Anyone got the cojonies to start it? All it would have to do is meld progressive social policy and conservative fiscal policy, plus commit to:
- halving the immigration intake and visa reform;
- decarbonisation;
- fair Budget repair;
- fair dinkum productivity reform, and
- taxation reform including to housing and super rorts.
It’s simple message would be that after the mining and housing booms, we must all sacrifice something to repair national competitiveness if we are to prosper sustainably in a global economy, as well as explicitly pledge to defy sectional interests everywhere.
That is, embrace basic liberalism and national interest.
It would rip the heart out of Fake Labor, Fake Liberal and Fake Greens overnight.
