Doomed duo: Albo and Voice

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The fake left has a new idea. It has realised it is putting the majority of Australians off by privileging Voice over economic issues. Fake left doyen Katharine Murphy:

Will people be angry that compulsory voting forces them to make a choice about something that feels less pressing than their own, entirely legitimate, compounding stresses? Or can Australians find the mindfulness in tough times, the requisite stillness, to listen, reflect and consider?

“Mindfulness” is about right. The Voice is a feel-good, well-being issue, so new-age rhetoric fits nicely. That’s the basis upon which I will vote yes.

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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.