The Call of the Board wheel now turns to Western Australia, after previous instalments that probed into the federal election results for Sydney (here and here), regional New South Wales, Melbourne, regional Victoria, south-east Queensland and regional Queensland.
Western Australia has been disappointing federal Labor ever since Kim Beazley elevated the party’s vote in his home state in 1998 and 2001, and this time was no exception. After an unprecedented Labor landslide at the 2017 state election and expectations the state’s economic malaise would sour voters on the government, the May election in fact produced a statewide two-party swing of 0.9% to the Coalition, and no change on the existing configuration of 11 seats for the Liberals and five for Labor.
As illustrated by the maps below (click on the images to enlarge), which record the two-party swings at booth level, Perth typified the national trend in that Labor gained in inner urban areas, regardless of their political complexion, while copping a hit in the outer suburbs. This will be reflected in the seat-by-seat commentary below, which regularly invokes the shorthand of “inner urban” and “outer urban” effects. The map on the left is limited to seats that are clearly within the Perth metropolitan area, while the second adds the fringe seats of Pearce (north), Hasluck (east) and Canning (south).
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For further illustration, the table below compares each electorate’s two-party result (the numbers shown are Labor’s) with a corresponding two-party Senate measure, which was derived from the AEC’s files recording the preference order of each ballot paper (with votes that did not preference either Labor or Liberal excluded). This potentially offers a pointer as to how much candidate factors affected the lower house results.
Brand (Labor 6.7%; 4.8% swing to Liberal): Like so many other suburban seats distant from central business districts across the land, Brand recorded a solid swing to the Liberals after going strongly the other way in 2016. This dynamic drowned out whatever impact candidate factors may have had: Labor’s Madeleine King picked up a 7.7% swing on debut in 2016, but this time copped a 4.8% reversal despite theoretically being in line for a sophomore surge. The Senate result was little different from the House, further suggesting candidate factors were not much of a feature.
Burt (Labor 5.0%; 2.1% swing to Liberal): On its creation in 2016, Burt recorded a swing to Labor of 13.2%, the biggest of the election. This partly reflected the dramatic boomtime suburban growth that had caused the seat to be created in the first place, and which has since ground to a halt. The Liberals swing of 2.1% this time was typical for suburbia outside the inner urban zone, overwhelming any sophomore effect for the seat’s inaugural member, Matt Keogh. However, Keogh very substantially outperformed the two-party Senate metric.
Canning (Liberal 11.6%; 4.8% swing to Liberal): Covering Perth’s outer southern fringes, Canning was another seat that typified outer suburbia in swinging heavily to the Liberals, in this case to the advantage of Andrew Hastie. Hastie came to the seat at a by-election held a week after Malcolm Turnbull’s rise to the prime ministership in September 2015, at which he survived a 6.6% swing to Labor, most of which stuck at the federal election the following July. The swing in his favour this time has returned the Liberal margin to the peaks of 2013.
Cowan (Labor 0.9%; 0.2% swing to Labor): Anne Aly gained Cowan for Labor in 2016 by a margin of 0.7%, slightly less than she would have needed to hold out the 0.9% statewide swing had it been uniform. She was in fact able to boost her margin by 0.2%, in a seat slightly out of the range of the wealthier inner urban areas where Labor did best in swing terms. The disparity between the House result and the two-party Senate metric, which records a 1.5% advantage for the Liberals, suggests Aly can take much of the credit for her win, over and above the exercise of the sophomore surge effect.
Curtin (Liberal 14.3%; 6.4% swing to Labor): The most prestigious Liberal seat in the west had a complicated story to tell at this election: Julie Bishop retired after more than two decades as member; the party raised some eyebrows locally by endorsing a Christian conservative, Celia Hammond, despite the seat’s small-l liberal complexion; and Labor initially endorsed former Fremantle MP Melissa Parke, who shortly withdrew after copping static over contentious pronouncements about Israel. An independent, Louise Stewart, held out some promise of harnessing support from Malcolm Turnbull loyalists, but her campaign was torpedoed after polling she circulated showing her well placed to win proved to be fabricated. Stewart claimed to have been the victim of a trick, while the Liberal response to the episode betrayed a certain inconsistency in attitude towards the dissemination of fraudulent documents for political purposes. The loss of Bishop’s personal support and the broader inner urban effect were evident on the scoreboard, with the Liberals down 11.3% on the primary vote and 6.4% on two-party preferred. The Greens continue to fall just shy of edging Labor into second – this time they trailed 17.6% to 15.6% on the primary vote and 20.4% to 19.6% at the last preference exclusion. Louise Stewart finished a distant fourth with 7.8%.
Durack (Liberal 14.8%; 3.7% swing to Liberal): When she first came to the seat covering northern Western Australia in 2013, Melissa Price had to fight off the Nationals, over whom she prevailed by 4.0%. However, she has since gone undisturbed over two elections as the Nationals have fallen to earth. The applecart was upset slightly on this occasion by the entry of One Nation, who scored 9.5%, contributing to respective drops of 4.3% and 5.8% for Labor and the Nationals, while Price’s primary vote rose 2.6%.
Forrest (Liberal 14.6%; 2.0% swing to Liberal): Nola Marino was re-elected with a modest swing amid a generally uneventful result. One Nation and Shooters Fishers and Farmers were in the field this time whereas the Nationals were not, but this was rather academic as the primary votes for all concerned were inside 6%.
Fremantle (Labor 6.9%; 0.6% swing to Liberal): The scoreline in Fremantle was not particularly interesting, with little change on two-party preferred, and downward primary vote movements for the established parties that reflected only a larger field of candidates. However, the results map illustrates particularly noteworthy geographic variation, with the area around Fremantle proper swinging to Labor in line with the inner urban effect, while the less fashionable suburbia that constitutes the electorate’s southern half went the other way (a pattern maintained across the boundary with Brand, where there was a 4.6% swing in favour of the Liberals). Labor member Josh Wilson was in line for a sophomore surge effect, although this was not his first bid for re-election thanks to a Section 44 by-election in July 2018, which passed without incident in the absence of a Liberal candidate.
Hasluck (Liberal 5.2%; 3.2% swing to Liberal): The Liberals’ most marginal Western Australian seat going into the election, Hasluck delivered Labor a particularly dispiriting defeat, with Ken Wyatt securing the biggest margin of his four election career. The swing reflected the general outer urban effect, although Labor did manage to pick up a few swings around relatively affluent Kalamunda.
Moore (Liberal 11.7%; 0.6% swing to Liberal): This northern suburbs beachside electorate is affluent enough to be safe Liberal, but not fashionable enough to have partaken in the inner urban effect. Third term member Ian Goodenough picked up a very slight swing, as the primary vote told a familiar story of the three established parties all being slightly down amid a larger field of candidates.
O’Connor (Liberal 14.5%; 0.6% swing to Labor): Covering the southern part of regional Western Australia, O’Connor was held by the Nationals for a term after Tony Crook unseated Wilson Tuckey in 2010, but Rick Wilson narrowly recovered it for the Liberals when Crook bowed out after a term in 2013, and the Nationals have not troubled him since. One Nation entered the race this time, but managed only a modest 8.4%.
Pearce (Liberal 7.5%; 3.9% swing to Liberal): Among the many Liberal scalps that went unclaimed by Labor was that of Christian Porter, who emerged the beneficiary of the outer urban effect after being widely written off in the wake of the state election landslide and the coup against Malcolm Turnbull. One Nation landed a fairly solid 8.2%, contributing to a solid 5.2% primary vote slump for Labor.
Perth (Labor 4.9%; 1.6% swing to Labor): One of Labor’s few reliable seats in the west, Perth has undergone frequent personnel changes since Stephen Smith retired in 2013, with Alannah MacTiernan bowing out to return to state politics in 2016, and her successor Tim Hammond failing to make it through a full term. This complicates sophomore surge considerations for current member Patrick Gorman, who retained the seat without Liberal opposition at a by-election in July last year. The swing in his favour reflected the inner urban effect, but he also managed to outperform Labor’s two-part Senate metric for the seat.
Stirling (Liberal 5.6%; 0.5% swing to Labor): In a once marginal seat that looked increasingly secure for the Liberals after Michael Keenan gained it in 2004, this election loomed as a litmus test of how secure the party would look when stripped of his personal vote. The results were encouraging for the party, with new candidate Vince Connelly suffering only a slight swing. The results map suggests a pattern in which the beachside suburbs and areas near the city swung to Labor, while the unfashionable area around Balga at the centre of the electorate went the other way.
Swan (Liberal 2.7%; 0.9% swing to Labor): Together with Pearce and Hasluck, Swan was one of three seats in Labor’s firing line, but Steve Irons was able to secure a fifth successive win in what has traditionally been a knife-edge seat. This was despite the pedigree of Labor candidate Hannah Beazley, whose father Kim Beazley held the seat from 1980 to 1996, when he jumped ship for Brand. The results map tells a family story in that the affluent western end of the electorate swung to Labor, while the lower income suburbs in the east went the other way.
Tangney (Liberal 11.5%; 0.4% swing to Liberal): Liberal sophomore Ben Morton held his ground in this safe Liberal seat, despite the riverside suburbia of Applecross and Attadale partaking of the inner urban effect. He gained 4.8% on the primary vote in the absence of former member Dennis Jensen, who polled 11.9% as an independent in 2016 after being defeated by Morton for preselection.
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GG
Your arrow flew straight past me. Missed by metres. 🙂
Boerwar:
I am of the view that Trump’s future largely lies with Mitch McConnell and whether he believes Trump’s running for re-election will imperil his Senate majority. Until then he will remain the Republican presidential candidate.
Neoliberal centrists like Andrew and Boerwar are constitutionally incapable of learning from the failures of their preferred ideological framework. They interpret every failure as a reason to double down on what clearly does immense harm to society.
Reading Hewson’s article, I keep wondering how far away the revocation of his Liberal Party membership is. The party has moved away from him so much…
The wikipedia entry on identity politics and its history as a term and as a practice is pretty good IMO.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
The thing I wanted to add to the comments already made above is just the historical roots of identity politics in the various civil rights movements.
Using identity politics to forge some sort of cohesive movement to work towards societal change was, I think, crucial for the success of a number of these movements – the LGBTQ in particular.
However, that of course meant that the political battlelines were drawn with conservative forces, and why ‘identity politics’ is such a pejorative term on the right these days.
There is a point to be made that identity politics requires the dividing up of broader society to “work”, and continuing to reinforce the barriers between groups – however they are defined/want to be defined – is not helpful for broader social cohesion. From my point of view I can see the importance of bringing marginalized individuals together to enable them to stand up collectively and press for acceptance/societal change, but for a successful broader society those fault lines ultimately have to be downplayed, not accentuated. I think much of the ‘triggering’ with respect to ‘political correctness’ etc came from the fact that speech/expression was coming to seem to be defined so much along identity lines – who could say what to whom – rather than a broader, more traditional/traditionally acceptable focus on general politeness.
And, of course, identity politics that the progressive side used in the past has now been recognized, analyzed and weaponized by the conservative/reactionaries, seemingly to much greater effect in terms of accumulating and holding actual power.
‘Nicholas says:
Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 8:55 am
Neoliberal centrists like Andrew and Boerwar are constitutionally incapable of learning from the failures of their preferred ideological framework. They interpret every failure as a reason to double down on what clearly does immense harm to society.’
Yeah. Yeah. Bring on the Revolution. They are such constructive exercises in catharsis.
Talking about learning from failures, Varoufakis was tossed out by the SYRIZANs. The did so not before the elections when he was a sort of cult hero for the Far Left. But after the elections. The SYRIZANs turfed him when the rubber hit the real world road.
And who does Mr Corbyn admire? Varoufakis!
Mr Corbyn has that, at least, in common with Mr Varoufakis.
‘Confessions says:
Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 8:54 am
Boerwar:
I am of the view that Trump’s future largely lies with Mitch McConnell…’
And with Mr Trump. We should not forget that Trump arose from Tea Party politics. The latter used to great effect the process of intimidating/destroying trad Republicans. Trump still has a massive latent threat of pulling the GOP temple down around the elephant’s ears.
Jackol
‘And, of course, identity politics that the progressive side used in the past has now been recognized, analyzed and weaponized by the conservative/reactionaries, seemingly to much greater effect in terms of accumulating and holding actual power.’
Yep. Good point. It is why Morrison spent the first five minutes at the Townsville speech ‘acknowledging’ a long list of targetted identity groups, such as war vets, along with Liberal worthies.
Some Lefties were outraged that this undermined acknowledgement of traditional owners and promptly started dissing war vets. Which raises a follow up point. If you can get your opponents to somehow or other seem to be attacking YOUR identity groups, so much the better.
Which is why Thunberg is so useful: as a pawn in identity politics.
Boerwar
You’re a master of the weaponising of identity politics. Your daily rants regarding inner suburban elites and conflating that with the Greens as a group does you proud.
AE
How’s that convoy of yours going? Any takers besides Cat?
Five things political donations tell us about how money is influencing Australian politics:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-07/political-donations-how-money-is-changing-australian-politics/11679350
The Greens don’t do a lot of identity politics, even then it is not of the harmful variety. Because when they use identity politics, it does not incite hatred, indeed it is more to encourage groups seen as marginalized to be proud of identities.
However the Coalition, along with far-right parties such as One Nation, certainly do Identity politics, of the harmful variety. Which is White, Christian, Male, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Meat Eating identity politics. These sorts of identity politics, often incite hatred against groups of people, who aren’t in these groups.
@Pegasus
I am concerned about the amount and type of donations going into major parties and also parties such as One Nation.
“Your daily rants regarding inner suburban elites and conflating that with the Greens as a group does you proud”
“How’s that convoy of yours going? Any takers besides Cat?”
Peg…have you ever considered spending just a part of a day not being a prolific dick??
The Greens are all about identity politics.
“ Neoliberal centrists like Andrew and Boerwar are constitutionally incapable of learning from the failures of their preferred ideological framework. They interpret every failure as a reason to double down on what clearly does immense harm to society.”
And of course, Nicholas misses the point. There is no point attacking us ‘neoliberal centrists’ because we – along with Nicholas – only have one vote each.
Focus on the voters Comrade. There isn’t enough who are woke to your MMT cant. You, just like us ‘neoliberal centrists’ need to find a way to bridge across ideological positions to make common cause. This is a point that we centrists have clearly failed to achieve in recent years. You on the other hand are simply oblivious to the actual political task required.
In short: while ‘We’ need to better, ‘You’ need to actually get with the program.
Chris Bowen and his right-wing comrades are going full bore pushing the identity politics of workers.
imacca
I expect Pegasus has stocked the fridge ready for at least a full day’s immersion in Labor’s review.
Good morning all. I (a few moments ago) attempted to post a longish item only to be logged out and post gone to —
However – happily for me (may not so for others) I saved the post
and
here it is 👇👇👇👇
Thank you BK for the Dawn Patrol.
I was particularly taken with David Rowe’s effort for today and I note that he often has his true to life characters in seventeenth century garb and in particular the shoes. To wit 👇👇👇👇👇
Contrast with the fashion icons from days of yore (when the peasants knew their place and were masters of obsequiousness * and the respectful touch of the forelock.
*What is obsequious behavior?
Obsequious people are usually not being genuine; they resort to flattery and other fawning ways to stay in the good graces of authority figures. An obsequious person can be called a bootlicker, a brownnoser or a toady.
👆👆Highly desirable traits for those seeking a place at the regimental Gummint Trough.
Days of yore may be defined as a time when there were no income taxes and only suitable meritorious men voted or were eligible to stand for Parliament.
In conclusion –
Bring back the lash ❗ That’ll sort out that lot wot are attempting to interrupt the Kings and Queens of Coal.
If this (whatever it is) makes no sense – please address complaints to Brown Bear or Mr. W. Bowe. Then Kew Veddy Much. 😇
Chartism – A Historical Background – The British Library
Before 1832, just ten per cent of British adult males were eligible to vote … In 1836 Cornish cabinet-maker William Lovett formed the London Working Men’s Association, … the association wanted ‘To seek by every legal means to place all classes of … qualifications for members of parliament; Annual parliamentary elections …
and
Although the Chartists gathered enormous support in the form of signatures for their petitions, their demands were rejected by Parliament every time they were presented. By the time Chartism ended in 1858, not a single demand from the People’s Charter had become law. Although the Chartists failed to achieve their aims directly, their influence persisted and reformers continued to campaign for the electoral reforms advocated by the People’s Charter.
lizzie
Oh dear, what a disappointing personalised comment.
I always figure the more nasty comments I attract, either directly or indirectly, the greater the cognitive dissonance being experienced by my detractors.
How do you interview a farmers rep in the drought taskforce without mentioning climate change?
Oh, except once where he said it was OK to subsidise farmers in drought relief as we subsidise renewable energy. And the ABC interviewer did not, of course, mention that subsidising renewable energy is fixing a problem, part of the solution to the increasing number and severity of droughts, where as some subsidies in the form of drought relief will no doubt be completely wasted as climate change effect increase and make those farms either permanently reliant on subsidies or become unviable… not to mention other waste in the scheme.
And he got away with the line that no tax payer dollars are actually going to farmers. Just low interest loans which have no cost to the tax payer.
RI @ #1223 Thursday, November 7th, 2019 – 8:06 am
If Labor can deal with the cross bench, it’s 5 seats, not 9.
Pegasus
It must be comforting to feel so superior to all the rest of us. I look forward to your future assessments of the Morrison government.
Jaeger:
More like:
Former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson admits he voted Liberal for first time at May election
lizzie
Oh dear, I guess those many Laborites here who tell me I am as stupid as…. or, I don’t understand the political reality of…. etc, etc, ad nauseum, aren’t feeling completely superior to me.
But do continue with your criticisms so selectively thrown my way.
Why don’t you chastise those who call me a “dick”, or tell me to “fuck off”, etc
Do you feel better by venting at me?
Jaeger, my first thought was ‘why is Jaeger posting a picture of yummy looking red lollies.’
The second was ‘What lollies are they? Some type of really red redskin?’
Then I got it.
I missed my morning coffee. Double shot Macchiato anyone?
– – Isn’t this technically grounds for expulsion from the ALP? – –
Technically the grounds for being a numbnut. I wouldnt believe a word he says anyways.
Such defensiveness, cognitive dissonance, scapegoating before the review is made public. The melt-down afterwards will truly be a sight to behold. By all means huddle together for comfort.
lizzie @ #1268 Thursday, November 7th, 2019 – 9:32 am
What Pegasus does or does not do is of no particular relevance to the Labor Movement. Her views and assertions don’t really resonate with the broader voting community and she certainly seems to be embracing the more extremist fringes of politics these days. Her only utility from my perspective is to continue her failed mouth lead strategy to accelerate and exacerbate the distance between the views her ratbag group of Greens ne’er do wells and a Labor Party focussed on returning to office.
The more snark, the better imho.
My expectation of the imminent revelation of the Labor Review is that it will contain no surprises and tell us nothing that we don’t already know, but all anti-Labor forces (some inside it) and the media will try to beat it into an existential crisis.
Lizzie,
You’ve touched a nerve there.
Peg doesn’t do analysis,
it’s beyond her cut and pasting abilities. 🙂
I agree with Bert who posted a complaint about the incessant and apparently interminable arguments and added that he looked for posts about grandchildren or dogs and follow ups to those posts.
Sounds good to me – because we (nearly all) have the ability, should we not want to put up with post from another, to do something about it. (block them). Vastly better than name calling and spite and malice.
lizzie
says:
Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 8:03 am
Please will someone explain “identity politics” to me in a way I can understand?
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A new definition of ‘identity politics’ has emerged in Australia recently.
It is now used as a scapegoat term by the ALP right to have a good old whinge. Despite having a right wing leader (Shorten) and a right wing economic policy architect (Bowen) leading the ALP to an unexpected defeat, it is now necessary for the ALP right to blame the loss on the left wing of the ALP. This is done in a number of speeches that accuse the ALP of apparently being too ‘politically correct’ or indulging in ‘identity politics’. There is no need for any examples to be given. But the bleating of these terms is considered cathartic enough for the right to blame the loss on the left.
This is a good piece by Richard Murphy about the inadequacy of carbon taxes / prices compared with limits and outright bans on carbon-intensive production.
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2019/11/06/carbon-taxes-and-carbon-pricing-are-not-solutions-to-the-climate-crisis/
BinTB
Struck a nerve – hardly. More like I struck lizzie’s nerve. I understand why my assertiveness and persistence here strikes a nerve for you and others who cannot abide those who don’t agree with the worldview of the loudest, prolific and opinionated ALP Laborites who dominate this blog..
lizzie @ #1276 Thursday, November 7th, 2019 – 9:47 am
It certainly breaches the oath you take when you join the ALP.
Richo is one of the people (but by no means the only one) that made me decide not to rejoin the ALP.
Nath, you are right. People need to realise that identity politics is like Sauron’s ring: it serves only one master. It only assists neoliberal causes. Neoliberals want people to be distracted by culture war topics rather than focus on the extreme harms caused by the current design of property rights and the current distribution of wealth, income, and power.
“Reading Hewson’s article, I keep wondering how far away the revocation of his Liberal Party membership is. The party has moved away from him so much…”
I’ll have to catch up with that article later. I recall that John Hewson was regarded as an eeconomic radical in his days as Opposition Leader, although he was socially liberal. Actually, a bit like Malcolm Fraser, a radical in the mid-70s, marking the beginning of a wave of Neoliberal ‘reform’.
#WeatheronPB. Warm and windy with cloud-free but dusty skies in Sydney.
Pegasus @ #1287 Thursday, November 7th, 2019 – 10:03 am
That’s 8 posts in less than an hour from someone who pretends that it’s other posters that are prolific and opinionated dominators of this blog.
Hmm.
Nicholas
says:
Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 10:06 am
Nath, you are right. People need to realise that identity politics is like Sauron’s ring: it serves only one master. It only assists neoliberal causes. Neoliberals want people to be distracted by culture war topics rather than focus on the extreme harms caused by the current design of property rights and the current distribution of wealth, income, and power.
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Imagine if the ALP had stood up for SSM from the moment Howard amended the Marriage Act. They would now be seen as having a principled and prescient view on the issue that was supported by over 60% of the people. But no. The ALP right had to play ‘identity politics’ and what we have seen is an incredibly lamentable history of the ALP on SSM.
Pegasussays:
Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 10:03 am
Peg,
you rarely post your own opinions, choosing to hide behind other authors, who you often completely misrepresent with your selective cut and pasting.
In the past you misrepresented some of Kevin Bonham’s work and were called out for it resulting in KB himself thanking those who had pointed out your dishonesty.
The only nerve you touch is the one that responds to such dishonesty. 🙂
I’m not sure whether Richo’s “Liberal vote” in the seat of Wentworth was a primary vote OR a preferential vote. If it is the former, it would be against party rules. If however, he merely preference the Liberal candidate above Phelps then it would not be a breach.
On a related note, I know of ALP voters who preferenced Abbott over Steggall for the reason that they preferred Tony to be in Parliament making a complete pigs breakfast of the LNP.
WTF?
Anybody who voted for the Scott Morrison Liberals has no right to call themselves a Labor man.
Boot him, Labor. Pronto.
(I take AE’s point. But still…)
Scummo and Crony Co. Inc. should be disqualified from gubmint for their hugely underwhelming performance and ruining the lives of the little people of Australia.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/nov/07/company-bosses-should-be-disqualified-from-boards-for-underpaying-workers-christian-porter-says
Jeff Sessions to run for the Senate in Alabama. Does this mean that Roy Moore isn’t going to have another crack? Surely Sessions would have the GOP support ahead of Moore.
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/06/politics/jeff-sessions-senate-run-alabama/index.html
Boerwar
You’ve remounted your fixed gear bicycle this morning.
I’m unlikely to completely miss the point and like to free wheel to enhance the vista.
You should try it sometime. Smell the roses perhaps!
Good Morning.
Chris Bowen has it right. No backwards steps on policy. Just more clarity.
The Coal Miners of Kentucky voted for the Democrats with their Nrw Deal.
What did it?
Economic populism. Cuts to Education and attacks on teachers.
Trump’s politics including labelling Bernie Sanders a socialist failed dismally.
The Democrats Economic policies seen on the Debate stages was not the bogeyman Trump and the Conservative media thought it was.
Universal Healthcare. Wins
Funding Education Wins.
A Green New Deal wins
A Wealth Tax wins
By using Sanders and Socialism as the bogeyman Trump proved that’s not what suburban voters are worried about. He also proved A Green New Deal works.
Be honest with the workers and you win.
The lesson move left Labor. Embrace your socialist base.
Oppose privatisation.
John Hewson knows what he is talking about. The ills visited to us by the right are common throughout the UK Us and Australia