OPINION: Australia has two types of elections, so which will we see this time?
Another way of classifying elections might be to divide them between contests in which the parties seem to be offering distinct alternatives, and those in which they converge even as they rip each other apart in an attempt to manufacture difference.
It is also the case that Australia's system of compulsory voting motivates parties to appeal to the centre instead of making more extreme pitches to mobilise their"base", as we see in the United States.recently pointed out Keane has a point, of course, but there are also policy differences: on taxation, on negative gearing, and on franking credits for retirees. The Labor Party is worrying over intergenerational inequality, and issues such as housing affordability and wages, in the ways the Coalition is not. And there are significant differences over energy and the environment.
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