Three-quarters of Labor’s 77 seats in the House of Representatives seats voted No at the referendum, and Queensland and WA should be a worry.
Labor ignores the outcome of Saturday’s Voice referendum at its peril, political analysts suggest, with three-quarters of the party’s 77 seats in the House of Representatives returning a majority No vote.
Just three Queensland seats voted Yes, all held by the Greens. While in WA, two seats gained Yes support: Perth, held by Labor’s Patrick Gorman, and Curtin, held“It will be the biggest lift that team’s had for two years,” the person said, adding it would also help the Liberals attract back corporate donors who had abandoned them under former leader Scott Morrison.
The referendum results served to highlight the growing political divide between inner-city, outer-suburban and rural and regional Australia, said John Black, an election analyst and former Labor senator for Queensland. Labor is taking comfort from the fact the same polls predicting the defeat of the referendum campaign also forecast Labor will comfortably win the next federal election.
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