Labor should be grateful for this sound advice; namely, pay no heed to these blue-ribbon rumbles lest you lose touch with the battlers. Mind you, I’m not sure why Tim Wilson’s offering Labor this sound advice, writes Julie Szego | OPINION Auspol
Even at the time, the spectacle was discombobulating for the likes of me who came of age in an era when real men smoked Marlboros and the workers were the lifeblood of the Labor Party. Was class politics in Australia reallyAlex Ellinghausen, Simon Schluter
Wilson also argues that despite their strategy to portray themselves as “Liberal-lite”, the “Voices” are more likely to peel off Greens and Labor voters, “less-so Liberals”. If that’s true he seems rather exercised about a group whose real danger is to the other side. I might gently suggest Wilson reconsider his own strategy because the current one’s confusing, but I know that anxiety can impede clear thinking.Liberal incumbents are trying to defuse what they know is a threat.
Personally, I’m uneasy about the prospect of a group of political unknowns emerging as kingmakers, or whatever the gender-neutral equivalent, in a hung parliament. Nothing against the candidates – on the contrary, I have breathless admiration for Daniel’s journalism at the ABC, for instance – it’s simply that having grown up in an era of relative certainties, I look for established boxes into which I can place individual politicians.
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