Across Melbourne at booths in areas with large ethnic communities, there were swings against Labor, especially in the south-east but also the outer north and west. What might this mean at November’s state election? | OPINION by Roshena Campbell
Last week Labor took to social media to remind us it was 47 years since the Whitlam government passed the Racial Discrimination Act.
In the Australia of today where different races and ethnicities bump along together most of us probably give little thought to issues of race.I am still amused by the reaction a member of the new cabinet had to learning that my husband was married to me .For some reason the then shadow minister thought it was worthy of comment, saying it showed how far we had come since the White Australia policy.
But while some Chinese voters headed towards the ALP, the evidence suggests that with other ethnic communities the traffic was all headed away from Labor. At Noble Park North, which has large numbers of Indian, Sri Lankan, Vietnamese, Greek and Chinese voters, Labor’s vote fell by 25.8 per cent – 22.3 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis.At the Lyndale booth, an area with large numbers of Indians, Sri Lankans and Afghans, Labor’s two-party-preferred vote dropped 14 per cent.
Is there any reason to believe the collapse in Labor’s vote last month in booths where large ethnic populations reside will be repeated in November?While ethnic kids of my generation may have endured the shame of taking a smelly lunch to school, this younger generation felt the sting of a premier who locked down public housing towers without warning.
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