Published: May 10, 2019
Populist voters could tip the balance to a Coalition government
With populists in control of the world’s most populous democracies, not least the United States, a question on the mind of many is what effect populism might have on this month’s Australian federal elections.
The first thing to note is that is all but certain that a populist will not lead the new government. Both the Liberal-National Coalition and especially the Labor Party continue to have a mass base of support that is filtered through influential labour unions, farmers associations, and other organisations. There will be no French-style collapse of the political establishment in Australia in 2019.
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