Bill Shorten and Labor are still in denial
The first stage of the grief cycle is denial and it is clear that Bill Shorten and the Labor party are preoccupied with
blaming everyone and everything except themselves for losing the unlosable election. 
Chris Kenny in The Australian on Labor's blame game:
Shorten couldn’t help himself and delivered one more tone-death blow to Labor’s standing. “We were up against corporate leviathans, a financial behemoth, spending hundreds of millions of dollars telling lies, spreading fear,” he said. “Powerful vested interests campaigned against us. Through sections of the media itself, and they got what they wanted.”
[Wait! what?? - did anyone see this happening?]
This was the very epitome of a sore loser. And while the bitterness might be understandable, t
he knowing damage to the Labor brand was unforgivable.
But delusional diagnosis aside, the real problem with Shorten’s assessment was what such democratic denial said about voters.
Again the Left side of politics was patronising to voters.
The voters hadn’t got it right, according to Shorten, they had been too stupid to recognise Labor’s superior agenda and too gullible in being conned by “corporate leviathans.”
Sorry, Bill, but it wasn't the 'big end of town' but ordinary Australians who rejected Labor's embrace of identity politics, class warfare and climate alarmism. 
I wrote about Labor's war on aspiration shortly before the election:
It’s one thing for Labor to embrace illiberal and economically reckless policies such as committing to renewables and emission targets that will drive up already high energy prices. But it’s another to run a campaign predicated on the politics of envy. The Opposition Leader may paint himself as the champion of the underdog against the “big end of town” but his history suggests otherwise.
If you were to believe Labor and its ideological bedfellows, the Greens, the “working poor” are carrying the tax burden while the rich dodge their responsibilities.
But the reality is that the top 10 per cent of income earners pay about 50 per cent of all personal income tax collected in Australia, even after “generous tax concessions” or “handouts” as Labor calls them.
The bottom 30 per cent of earners pay only about 5 per cent. And, that’s before you factor in government benefits.
Indeed the problem we have in this country isn’t the rich not paying their fair share
but close to half the country’s “income units” paying no net tax.
The war on the most productive members of society, the ones doing the heaviest lifting in working hard, paying taxes, generating wealth and employing people will not end well for Australia.
It is a strategy that has been employed elsewhere in the world and it is all but guaranteed to leave the country poorer and more divided.
Labor’s demonisation of property owners is particularly cynical given how heavily property is taxed in this country, including state taxes such as stamp duty and land tax, and the fact that average income earners use property to build wealth.
About 70 per cent of Australians own or are paying off their homes. If you’ve entered the property market, you have good reason to fear a Labor victory. By effectively removing investors from the market, other than for new constructions, it is reducing every homeowner’s potential to achieve an optimum price for their biggest asset.
You can’t tax your way to prosperity or wage growth. What any fair society should strive for is equality in opportunity. It is foolish to try to engineer equality in outcome.
As the US economist and writer Thomas Sowell said: “If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions?”
Former Australian deputy prime minister John Anderson warned this week that Labor’s embrace of toxic identity politics will further divide the nation.
“We are now turning ourselves into emocracies rather than democracies; it’s all about emotions,
it’s all about feelings and Shorten is playing the Hillary Clinton identity politics game by appealing to people’s senses of grievance and victimhood,” 
he said.
When aggrieved people find that government can’t solve their grievances, they become more resentful of their fellow citizens.
