Perspective: Scott Morrison is still streets ahead of Anthony Albanese, writes CroweDM
The cold calculation at the heart of Australian politics is that the forces which propelled Scott Morrison to victory at this year’s election are far more powerful than the factors helping Anthony Albanese rebound from defeat.issued this week, shows that concerns about tax and the economy held greater weight with more voters than a desire for action on environment and climate change.
“In this election, there were a greater number of voters that switched from Labor to the Coalition based on economic issues, than from the Coalition to Labor based on environmental issues,” the study says. Albanese is acting on the lessons from the election. His comments this week on coal exports did not give the Greens what they wanted – a ban by 2030 – but gave Labor what it needed: a message on climate change that did not throw coal workers aside.
Labor under Bill Shorten prided itself on having a plan to invest in TAFE and bring fairness to the workforce, yet voters turned away. Albanese ends this year with a strong start to his leadership, including expelling John Setka from the Labor Party and putting pressure on Morrison in Parliament, but the greater challenge is to rethink policy., based on surveys of 2179 voters, highlights the way the taxation of assets, not just income, can now determine who holds power.
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