Two weeks later, and the excuses are still flowing.
The left lost because: a/ their policies were stupidly ambitious and unfundable, or 2/ Tasmanian greens went too far north. The ABC thinks “2″.
If only Bob Brown had got some Queenslanders to do the Adani protest instead, Bill Shorten would be PM:
Environment leaders reflect on their role in the ‘climate election’
Michael Slezak, ABC Enviroment and Science Ad Writer:
One of Australia’s leading social researchers, Rebecca Huntley, said the Stop Adani Convoy strategy was bound to fail.
“People from outside the area coming in — that just pisses people off,” said Dr Huntley, who heads up Vox Populi Research.
ABC Staff can always find someone to say what the journalists are thinking: in this case, that people might vote for a coal mine, but there’s no way they like coal:
Paul Williams is a senior lecturer in politics at Griffith University in Queensland and is one of the country’s foremost experts on elections in that state. He said the Stop Adani Convoy probably cost Labor at least “tens of thousands of votes” in Queensland, if not “hundreds of thousands”.
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June 1, 2019 at 11:33AM
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