Data shows most high-income business owners vote for the Coalition and most lower-income workers vote for Labor
Battlers. The working class. Ordinary voters. Since the Australian federal election, there have been claims these voters abandoned Labor for the Liberal-National Coalition. Similar to the idea of “Howard’s battlers”, commentators have asserted that Labor has become the party of wealthy inner-city elites, while the Coalition has become the party of “quiet Aussies”.
Much of the commentary is starting to develop an argument along the lines that Scott Morrison’s daggy suburban dad charm beat out the parties of the left – which have been portrayed by some as representing inner-city elites – for the support of struggling workers employed in manufacturing and retail.
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