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Why Labor lost!


What ever your political bias, I am entitled to express my opinion. I have endured the numerous opinions of others prior to the Federal Election in silence. I believe, like many others of the silent majority. Who and how I voted is irrelevant now, so do not waste your time on speculation. I am here to conduct some post election forensics.

There was a strong focus by Labor on taxes to pay for infrastructure that has funding already allocated to it. What people saw and heard was taxes being applied to people who had worked from the ground up to financial stability. The rank and file members who also had an investment property( or 2).

There was no assurance of long term sustainable employment, actually very limited mention of jobs at all. It would have been nice to hear that someone in the party office was actually reading economic reports. Going after large mining industrial projects to further negate jobs growth was probably a bad idea. This created disunity amongst it's own members who were also part of unions who benefited from growing membership these projects would bring on.

The Labor party being out of touch with the general electorate had harkened to days of yesteryear, trying to create and wage a class war against the very people who had benefited from Labor policies of old. The assumption that swinging voters would gladly consign their financial future to a party with a large gap in it's financial knowledge was laughable.

So by pandering to fringe policies and factions Labor was unable to provide any believable vision or future for Australia and it's economic well being. It embraced polices and ideals from organisations who have no knowledge or experience to lead and run a country. Labor forgot people need to eat and have somewhere safe and secure to live.

Jumping onto the bandwagon of after the Royal Commission into Banking to directly penalise brokers for doing a job that benefited all Australians and introduced competition in the finance sector was another furphy. The Labor party were once notorious opponents of the big banks, but after a few key party members participating on big bank boards ( and a former state premier now as head of the Australian Banking Association) they seem to be best of friends and were quite happy to bury the hatchet( into the broking industry's back).

This awoke a sleeping lion within the broking industry, a group of people I am proud to call very decent and honourable. They reached out to all those that would have been impacted by such biased changes to influence competition. That being the real estate, construction industry and logically the average Australian wanting to buy a home. The broking industry provided close to 60% of all home lending services in the past year. The brokers, real estate agents, builders and associated trades are responsible for what is close to $1.2 Trillion dollars income to Australia annually. This sector ensures everyone has a chance at the great Australian dream. Not the politicians, not the big banks. I want you to remember that you haven't had it this good ever.

Because of the conduct of Labor and the biased reporting which was most likely influenced in it's course. This group of people who were seemingly identified as a small number to be easily targeted as political scapegoats have turned around to represent a greater number of the voting population and now putting Labor on notice for the next election. We are not going away and we have a lot of friends.

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