The political realignment in Australia is underway, with conservative parties appealing to the working class and progressive parties targeting urban elites. The teal wave in 2022 grabbed headlines, but there was also a swing against Labor's primary vote in suburban seats.
The great political realignment of the 21st century is well under way in Australia . Explicitly so, if you take Peter Dutton at his word this week.
Hence, Dutton’s declaration this week that the Liberal Party is now “the party of the worker”. Dutton was speaking at a small-business lobby gathering, so he was sure to say it was simultaneously “the party of small and family business”. We could parse these categories all day.
Dutton’s frequent invocation of the Voice, and his attempt to pit the worker against some kind of woke-union-industrial complex might isn’t an economic argument. It functions to keep politics in the realm of identity. It conscripts economics into a culture war.
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