Commentary
A bullet with butterfly wings
Precarity obscured by an emphatic federal election result
by John Byron •
Last month’s remarkable federal election result has produced a metric plethora of articles explaining how it was achieved and what it means for the government, for the electorate, and for elections to come.
Despite the sprawl of red across the chamber, the result should not blind us to the degree of uncertainty that now prevails in the electorate. We are living inside a new electoral calculus and all the major parties need to adapt for future elections, or we will need another, bigger word for ‘landslide’.
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