Despite the media’s classification of 2016 as a close run contest modern Labor is performing at an historically low level of popular support. But this is not a phenomena of the Rudd/Gillard turmoil. Labor’s election results and its style of campaigning betray an inherent weakness afflicting the party that has been present since it lost office in 1996.
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