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Kos Samaras

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
506 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

And that is possible because of the constituency they leaned into at that budget.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

So the two-party preferred vote for Labor amongst Generation Z, that is Australians between 18 and 28, is just over 70%.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

It's extraordinary at the levels.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

The two-party preferred vote amongst Australians who speak a language other than English at home, 70%.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

And amongst millennials, it's 56.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

And so these constituencies are going to drive strong electoral results for Labor and lock in at least a minimum of 70-plus seats for them on a bad day.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

I don't think so, because the word fair go...

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

Most people will tell us they think there isn't a fair go in the country right now.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

Even before the budget, they think the system, the tax system, is designed to reward people with wealth and not those with incomes.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

And that's the overwhelming position of everyone that is voting Labor, Green and One Nation and Independent.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

everyone but the Liberal Party.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

And the only electorates that the coalition's now left holding are electorates which are similar to till electorates, but these electorates that they've got, which is only just over a dozen, are basically electorates with high numbers of people with investments and assets.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

So the coalition might be referring to their own base, but that's a shrinking base at that.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

So how would you assess Angus Taylor's messaging this week more broadly?

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

Pretty poor, you know, going to what we've just been talking about, and that is a growing number of Australians not feeling that they are being given the fair go.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

And then the other one, which is, of course, his migration policy, which was, in my opinion, a policy designed to completely lock themselves out of big urban Australia.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

So not only does it touch Australians who are permanent residents, what he fails to understand is many of these Australians who are permanent residents also have family who are citizens in their own household.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

There's mixed households.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

You might find a situation where the grandparents are permanent residents but the adult children are citizens.

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Is the budget backlash hurting Labor?

This is not unusual.