Comments on: Congratulations Kevin! from James B

By: matt byrne

matt byrne — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:44:33 +0000

i’d like to meet “middle australia” one day. Exactly what defines middle australia? Has anyone ever bothered to challenge the coalition’s definition?
I’m from rural NSW, a place that consistently votes for the Nats federally and the Libs in state. Muslims never get raised at the bbq’s i go to. What is talked about is cricket and footy, the drought education and health and more recently, workchoices and petrol prices. And these aren’t Labor voters, these are conservative voters who’ve previously given their vote to One Nation. I think James B is more correct than either ‘G’ or ‘R’.

By: G

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:37:08 +0000

I agree with R, fairly much all the things James B wrote about the average punter doesn’t even know or care about.
Rudd will make the election tougher but he does have a mountain to climb with not much help from his “team”.

By: R

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:49:43 +0000

That was like a recipe for turning Middle Australia off. Middle Australia don’t want to hear about how ALP is in love with the Union movement. Declining union membership is evidence of the fact that Middle Australia is sick of hearing about unions.
All Middle Australia cares about is interest rates and petrol prices (with a bit of childcare and health care thrown in). They talk about the Muslims at the weekend BBQ. Middle Australia don’t care about the UN or David Hicks.
Oh and make sure Labor talk about real wages growth. Its about up to 19% since Coalition got into power compare ALP’s 10 years = 1.3%.
Rudd has got a lot of work ahead of him.