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Demographics explain how we voted on Saturday

The haves voted to share their wealth, the have-nots wanted someone to notice them, too.

John BlackElection analyst

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Whether we like it or not, the No voters won this referendum, and a discussion of the who, the where and the why is probably long overdue.

It’s too late for the New Zealand Labour Party, of course, but the signs are our No-voting demographics just installed a new centre-right coalition government across the ditch.

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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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