Wealthy, students led Lib defeats
The 2021 census has laid bare the demographics of the Morrison government’s defeat at the last election.
The 2021 census has laid bare the demographics of the Morrison government’s defeat at the last election.
The fastest growing age cohorts in Australia are people age 20 to 34 and those over 65, census data reveals. We look at why.
Australia is undergoing a generational shapeshift with those born between 1981-1995 catching the baby boomers as a proportion of the population.
Coalition faced with the mammoth task of winning seats that Labor now holds on margins of 3.3 per cent or more.
States with higher booster vaccination rates experienced lower death rates from Covid-19, new analysis shows, as top heath chiefs urge those holding out to get their third shot immediately.
Labor’s victory in last month’s election came despite the party’s primary vote falling in more than half of the nation’s seats.
Electoral analysis disproves widespread belief that all new Climate 200-backed independents picked up the majority of their votes from disaffected Liberal voters.
The Liberals and Nationals have dropped to their lowest percentage representation of MPs across federal, state and territory governments since the Liberal Party was founded.
First-time independent MPs are more likely than not to win a second term, suggesting most of the newly elected super-sized crossbench will become part of the furniture in Canberra.
They came in their Range Rovers and Jimmy Choos for a political reset. The teals triumphed on the back of disaffected Liberal voters in Australia’s wealthiest and most educated electorates.
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