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Nick Dyrenfurth

Labor’s identity reckoning among young working-class men

In a world of gender quotas and corporate diversity and inclusion strategies, these men see their concerns treated not just as secondary but as suspect.

Men are from Mars, women from Venus – but as Australians head to the polls, you’d be forgiven for thinking much of our election coverage was reporting from a different galaxy altogether. This week, breathless headlines were devoted to teal MP Monique Ryan’s refusal to answer questions at a polling booth, a sideshow framed as high political drama.

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Nick Dyrenfurth is the executive director of the John Curtin Research Centre.

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