The seats Labor is most likely to hold on Saturday have these characteristics: low levels of education, high numbers of manufacturing workers and people born in non-English speaking countries, a high proportion of working-age people who rely on welfare payments and large numbers of families in public housing.
Nothing we all didn't know anyway but at least labor are admitting they are the party for no hopers.According to former Labor senator John Black, who runs research consultancy Australian Development Strategies, the party's base is down to welfare recipients, single parents, TAFE students and the low-paid. This is a voter segment well below the 40 per cent required to be electorally competitive.
In an analysis of November's Victorian election, Black identified the profile of the modern state ALP voter as "basically those persons getting something from the federal government"
No wonder Monk votes for them