A new day dawns for our politicians

“If you don’t like it, don’t vote for us!” That burst of frustration from Labor’s shadow treasurer, Chris Bowen, to a group of worried Queensland retirees during the long federal election campaign now may be seen as unwise in the unsuccessful Bill Shorten-led attempt to restore the Australian Labor Party to the government benches in the Federal Parliament. They didn’t! The results of the election have revealed that the Opposition’s campaigning style and policy mix was unappealing and disturbing to voters across the nation. The over-the-back-fence, matey and plain speaking Scott Morrison has shown himself to be a much more shrewd and ‘in-tune politician than many of his critics believed. Mr Shorten’s style Labor class counter-productive. return to old divisions was demonising groups of ordinary