A Bigger, More Taxed, Less Housed Australia Incoming?

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May 04 2025 | 00:08:53

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Show Notes

So now we know, Labor is headed into a landslide result from the election, after Liberal votes fell away and the opposition leader Peter Dutton lost his seat. If the number holds through to the end of the count, it will be the highest two-party preferred vote since World War II, exceeding the 55.7 per cent Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser achieved in 1975. So was this a vote against something, or a vote for something? A bit of both, as it turned out. Australians overwhelmingly preferred Labor’s version of that future and rejected that of the Liberals – and of […]

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