Migrants turn off Voice

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More trouble for Voice thanks to Albo fake left posturing:

Anthony Albanese is entering a danger zone for his future prime ministerial prospects as important groups of voters begin to cast a critical eye on his performance, question the need for a Voice to parliament, and ask: “What have you done for me?”

That’s the view of John Black, an election analyst and former Labor senator from Queensland, who has noted the crucial role in Labor’s 2022 election victory of the so-called “aspirational left” – the progressive leaning but financially aspirational suburban home owners who are increasingly from migrant backgrounds that have dominated population growth over the past decade. But their support of the government came with strings attached.

“They’re Labor voters, but they also know they are the ones paying a lot of tax,” he said. “They are much more transactional electorally.”

Amid a cost of living crisis hitting this group of voters hard – with rising home loan repayments, private school fees, private health insurance costs and grocery bills – the prime minister risked losing them if he was seen to be too focused on winning the referendum for an Indigenous Voice to parliament, Mr Black said.

Who can blame working people of all stripes for turning off the Voice?

I am very much in favour of Voice and will vote yes.

But, increasingly, I’m doing it through gritted teeth because of the fake left policies of Anthony Albanese. He is misusing Voice as a cover for catastrophic economic failure meaning that to vote “yes” politically rewards those who should be punished.

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This is why the Voice is failing so badly:

Indigenous Australians should be furious at being misused by Albo’s fake left.

About the author
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.