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The new wild colonials: country voters have turned on everyone

29 May 2019

4:18 PM

29 May 2019

4:18 PM

Once upon a time in Australian politics there was such a thing as natural constituencies – the well-heeled inner suburbs were blue-ribbon Liberal, the industrial suburbs dead-red Labor and if a party vote at rural booths varied from election to election, it was because of that new family recently moved in down the road.

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