The government will find it hard to argue that people are better off now than five years ago
When reviewing the economic picture of 2018, the nagging question is just how much it matters in a political sense. Clearly there is more to life than politics, and the suggestion that everything must be pitched in terms of the political impact is as awful as suggesting that somehow every issue must be related back to how it will affect house prices. But with an election in the offing – either in early March or mid May – the political implications of the economy come more to the fore.
It’s axiomatic that “management of the economy” is considered a major reason for people’s voting choices. But just what that means is rather more difficult to surmise. In the Australian National University’s long-running survey of voters’ choices after each federal election, 30% of Coalition voters listed management of the economy as the most important issue in 2016, while only 10% of ALP voters did the same.
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