Foxy, the link below explains much.
See: https://meanjin.com.au/essays/at-war-with-ourselves/

In it Mark Davis wrote: "The stock story of the culture wars is well known now: two tribes face off in a war of values: a beleaguered mainstream of ordinary Australians—‘battlers’, ‘middle Australia’, ‘families’—versus an unrepresentative, all-powerful ‘politically correct’ ‘leftist’ ‘cultural elite’. Dispatches from the front lines of this battle fill many an opinion column and radio talkback segment.

An endless parade of man-hating feminists, queue-jumping asylum seekers, leftist university lecturers, biased ABC journalists, grant-grubbing scientists, handout-addicted Aborigines, and sharia-law-promoting Islamic clerics populate our fevered media imaginations, their stories told with an obsessive-compulsive repetitiveness that creates its own kind of truth.

There’s barely an issue now that isn’t refracted through the lens of the culture wars and presented as a partisan struggle between ‘left’ and ‘right’. Indigenous rights, asylum seekers, gay marriage, the future of public broadcasting, keeping kids safe at school, Islam, even the science of global warming.

But there’s a clue in this reductionism.

In essence the culture wars are a finely honed media product, packaged and exported by the US right, and marketed through conservative franchises around the world—think tanks, right-leaning media, lobby groups, conservative political parties, partisan pollsters, and the professional purveyors of political division who work as party strategists. The product consists of a narrative template into which names, places and issues can be inserted to suit the occasion, but always the overarching story is the same: a broad-based, powerless ‘mainstream’ faces off against the outrages perpetrated by an all-powerful left ‘elite’. The context in which this product is marketed is the chaos and confusion that marked the end of post-war consensus politics in the late 1970s and that has been ongoing. Its fuel is rage and the sense of dislocation, disruption and insecurity felt by many after decades of economic and cultural change.

The solution offered isn’t to kick upwards against the entrenched economic power of the rich but to kick downwards against new claimants for rights and inclusion, who are identified as the real cause of the trouble."

Polls - what polls ?

Dear Albie,

Thanks for that.

Well stated and scary.

Butch. That is real arrogense. You did not mention Abbott as the first alter net govt, the world has seen since the Second World War.
Since then we have had a DD election which did not work but went backwards.
I hope you are happy with your 25 percent reduction of the lowest paid employees in Australia.

Come, come, Is Mise, you can't predict the weather for yesterday let alone the winner in a two horse race.

Pyne is a grub, he always reminds me of some pouncey public school boy, who's forever running to the headmaster with tittle-tat, trying to get some other poor sod into the shat! Like some mealy-mouthed ferret, Pyne is always "sniff'n the breeze" to see which way the winds blowing so he's facing in the right direction to take advantage. Pyne is the most detestable politician in Australia, bar none, and that includes Pauline Hanson, Tony Abbott and even Barnyard Joyce!

Nice try there Doog, a 25% reduction you say.

Just like your labor puppet, Shorten, you bend the truth for the benefit of a good story. The 25% reduction applys to Sundays and public holidays only. Get it!

If it does not come in many more will loose their jobs. Get it!

Every second street corner has three coffee shops staffed by school kids. Whatever happened to innovation . Public holidays are public holidays and should be taken. Your reduction is an arm twist and will not pass the pub test.