Class warriors smash Albanese’s “progressive” Labor

Monday, 28 October 2019

Via the ABC:

A senior Labor official has warned the party will continue to lose votes to minor parties like One Nation, unless it starts talking to more people than just “university-educated, city dwellers”.

ABC analysis of voting trends and census data revealed Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party polled strongly in electorates with a high percentage of migrants, despite an outspoken stance on immigration.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.