Our jobs no longer define how we vote
Our latest polling shows the type of work we do no longer defines how we vote. And with this change comes a shift in how politicians see us and how they might appeal to us, writes Peter Lewis.
Go figure. When the esteemed Royal Australasian College of Physicians met in Cairns in May the agenda was dominated by the rights of asylum seekers, divestment from fossil fuels and the administration of transgender medication.
While the doctors worked their way through a playbook that seemed more at home at a Greens Party conference, the Coalition was honing its budget pitch to tradies to "have a go" and update their tool kit.
Doctors to the left, tradies to the right - Marx would be spinning in his grave.
As this week's Essential Report shows, the type of work we do no longer defines how we vote. Professionals are becoming the new progressives, while the loyalty of the working classes to Labor is ebbing.
Full story with groovy table (which seems to suggest that we have a lot of LNP voting managers keeping this govt in power):
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-01/lewis-our-jobs-no-longer-define-how-we-vote/6585894
