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John Black

Dear Albo, here’s why Fadden shows your honeymoon is over

Young voters deserted Labor in the Fadden byelection and renters turned on the Greens. Tarting up the result as anything other than trouble for the Albanese government is a mistake.

Even the pet shop galah knows by now that the Fadden byelection marks the end of the honeymoon for Anthony Albanese.

But, if we rummage around the demographics of the booth swings, we start to wonder if the marriage itself is in trouble, as they show a big split between the ALP vote and the big emerging demographics who elected Labor to government in 2022.

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John Black is a former Labor senator for Queensland. He is executive chairman of profiling company Australian Development Strategies, and of Education Geographics.

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