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By Everald Compton, published 20/12/2019But, there is hope that, across the Tasman in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda will become the world standard bearer for those on the Left, even though New Zealand is a tiny isolated nation.
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Just 22 per cent of Australians hold a tertiary degree. Yet within the active and activist ranks of the ALP, about 70-80 per cent would have a tertiary degree; fully 90 per cent of Young Labor is sourced from and organised on university campuses.
The average Labor staffer, activist, MP or even member tends to be a university-educated, socially liberal, higher-income and to live closer to the inner city.
By contrast, the average Labor voter tends to be older, more likely to have a trades or technical education, be more cautious of social change if not socially conservative, with a lower income and living in the suburbs or regional centres. They more likely to at least identify with some form of religious tradition or culture.
A large proportion of Labor’s elite look, sound and think like Greens.
Compton, as usual is as blind as a bat. Shorten did go to the electorate investing " heavily in Climate Change", with even more bizarre CO2 reduction targets and dearer electricity. Duh! And he got his just desserts.