🪓 @KosSamaras takes an axe to the overblown scare campaign surrounding the Albanese Government's budget.
As Kos puts it, no one is rushing into bat for the aged care worker in the outer suburbs who hasn't seen a significant pay rise in years: "They don't have lobby groups. They don't dominate talkback radio. They don't have columnists writing for them."
But these voters have found a way to be heard. Some are sticking with Labor. Others are drifting to One Nation.
Kos's warning? Labor cannot afford to waver. If it backs away from delivering for these voters, they'll make their anger felt at the ballot box.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has come under fire for misleading voters on why she is yet to cost her signature policies or risk not being taken seriously.
Hanson's excuse? The party was unable to use the PBO before the last election due to not having enough MPs.🙄
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One Nation has spent the day in damage control with Barnaby Joyce forced into an embarrassing backdown over whether his party would force non-citizens to sell their properties. The Prime Minister, facing heat over his own policy, sidestepped claims he should apologise for broken promises.
Another sign that the graduate market is generally healthy is low job search volumes. It’s a sign that friction in the grad market remains relatively low. Grads continue to find jobs quickly, requiring fewer job searches than in the years before the post-pandemic job boom.
Australia is replacing coal and gas power with solar and wind—
At the turn of the millennium, Australia got more than 80% of its electricity from coal. This has dropped to less than 45%.
The chart shows how the country’s electricity mix has changed in recent decades.
In the 2000s and early 2010s, coal was initially replaced by gas, with only moderate growth in solar and wind. But in the last five years, solar and wind have been deployed much more quickly.
Gas is now on the decline, too. In 2023, solar overtook gas to become Australia’s second-largest electricity source.
While coal is declining, it still supplies much more of Australia’s power than most high-income countries.
(This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie and @parriagadap.)
One Nation has spent the day in damage control, with Barnaby Joyce forced into an embarrassing backdown over whether his party would force non-citizens to sell their properties. @telester