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The Freshwater Strategy Poll of 1,003 of Australia’s wealthiest voters, conducted for Australian Financial Review, has found that the Liberal-National Party coalition is in front of Labor for the first time since the 2022 election.
The poll shows Prime Minister Albanese’s government is less popular Peter Dutton’s Liberal-National Coalition, which now leads 51 per cent to 49 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis.
The extremely accurate poll also found Labor’s primary vote slumped one point to 31 per cent while the Coalition remained unchanged at 40 per cent.
While everyday voters will simply point to as the cost-of-living crisis, caused by the politically protected supermarket duopoloy as well as multiple major global conflicts, as their number one concern with the current government – the Nine Media’s narrative is that Labor’s slump has been caused by their groundbreaking expose into the heavy-handed tactics of the CFMEU’s construction arm.
It is completely lost on the media class that their union-busting exposè didn’t even really see daylight in between a State Of Origin upset, the Euro Finals and Donald Trump getting his ear shot off.
But still, in partnership with both the Federal Opposition and the far more partisan Murdoch newspapers, both the AFR and Channel Nine have convinced themselves that the wider Australian public are DISGUSTED by these UNION GRUBS.
Meanwhile, in real the world, Australians are still crippled by house prices that have been driven up by the tax-loopholes offered to the 15% of Australians who have become millionaires through property investments, and the brazen wealth-hoarding of property developers.
In fact, most voters applaud the CFMEU for being able to ensure that a 1st-year apprentice tradesman with a sleeve tattoo gets paid the same as a 1st year real estate agent who dropped out of Bond University when it became clear he wasn’t going to play for the Wallabies and is now killing time until dad finds him a job at Macquarie Bank.
The Australian media’ almost delusional detachment from the concerns of the vast majority of Australians, most of whom aren’t billionaire construction barons or similarly cranky CEOs who are terrified of their labour-dependent workforces getting similar results out of their own unions, may result in the Coalition getting blind-sinded by genuine voter sentiments at the upcoming Queensland and Federal elections.
But still, the multimillionaire property developer himself, Peter Dutton has this week remained firm on the ‘union grubs’ narrative.
Appearing front and centre in every single Australian newspaper this week, Dutton has been somehow managed to suggest that tradies on infrastructural government projects, or the commercial builds of already overpriced luxury apartments and high-rise shoebox student accomodation towers, are driving up house prices because their union has ensured that they are able to own a Raptor ute outright.
