'The truth was that the country’s mainstream parties...had lost an economic story to tell.
The postwar settlement had been quietly dismantled
–privatisation by privatisation, reform by reform
– & the party that built the settlement had become the party defending its demise.'
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Voices 4 Dunkley, Victoria, Australia
Want to know why #OneNation won in Farrer? Same reasons as Nigel Farrage is winning n Britain and all the other far right liars are winning across Europe. This is about how #GetUp tried and failed miserably to convince voters to abandon PHON.
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Over the six weeks leading up to May 9, GetUp spent $600,000 campaigning against One Nation in the Farrer byelection. Then we lost, badly. We knew from the start that the odds were against us. Still, ...