In the past, this statement may have been correct....but not any more.
The working and middle classes have lifted their sights and aren't bedazzled by the union ra-ra anymore.
The working and middle classes are starting to gather some assets behind themselves nowadays and are finding a bit of financial literacy goes a long way. They are now aspirational, not working class, and hence, not all, but enough to make a huge difference (i.e. change Govts) are voting with the coalition.
I agree with this, many 'working class' people have become aspirational. After a property boom that has seen their wealth rise rapidly due to the rise in value of their main residence.
This has happened largely without their doing but they now consider themselves middle/upper class and with that change requires a change in political affiliation. Voting for liberals "means they have made it", "they are wealthy".
Also most people just have no understanding how much of their current working conditions were thought for by unions.
You'll most likely find in years to come, this is the fundamental reason why the Labor brand is in terminal decline and shall never recover.
Forget redheads, forget union thuggery, forget corruption (I know, it's hard to) forget all of the stench coming from the NSW right, the people....and it only needs to be a 4 or 5% difference, are realising that to govern both an economy and a civil society, one needs to be financially literate.
People are realising that placing ex-union officials with no business skills whatsoever in charge of the biggest business in the country is just wrong. The results speak for themselves. They simply cannot manage money, regardless of the overseas factors.
I tend to disagree, I don't think one side is more financially literate or experienced than the other or any less corrupt, just different.
Its funny that even with the corruption hearings going on, new government ministers are still wining and dining with developers, still reading about large projects shrouded in secrecy not going to tender, still have government positions being stacked with political offiliates.
If you compare parties Liberal is more predisposed to look after the interests of employers and high income earners and labor looks after the interests of employee's especially low income earners. They are something that needs to be kept in balance, this happens largely by the changing of the post.
Booms just mean one generation of people borrowing from the next, so you are always going to have disenfranchised people. The longer the boom go's on the greater divide you are creating between the established and the new generation who are starting from nothing.
People are realising that a Govt's job (it has many, but the primary one) is to bring in as much revenue as possible....importantly from increasing the total pie, not taxing more the existing pie, then sit down and intelligently allocate the myriad of areas that are all screaming for more funds.
Taxes are lower now than under the previous government. So don't know about increasing.
Creating more revenue in the future means investing today, I guess it just depends on whether you think government should play a role or leave it upto private industry (if willing).
There is a million and one baby chicks waiting to be fed. There are only so many worms. The mother bird is pretty quickly knocked off is she is rubbish at finding extra worms, or is rubbish at allocating them to the awaiting chicks once she has found them.
The problem is the birds not getting an equal share.
