No voters were what we call the digitally disrupted, mums and dads who didn’t read so well as kids and maybe didn’t get past year 10 or 11 at school, and are now stuck working in less skilled and more repetitive jobs getting taken over by computers and machines.
Rounding out the groups voting No were Australians who go to church – a group also won by Rudd in 2007, but picked up in 2019 and last year by Scott Morrison. If ever a demographic was prepared to cast a vote for Yes, you would think it would be this one.
These people aren’t racists. They’re good people, working hard to pay road tolls because they can’t afford to live in cities any more, having been crowded out by wealthier professionals.
The Yes voters living in the inner cities are relatively younger and more healthy, and still working out at the local gym. They’re smart, and they studied hard to get secure, professional jobs. Now they’re working just as hard to earn good money to pay down the mortgage, send the kids to the best local school they can afford, and pay for private health insurance.
And Indigenous Australians also voted Yes, as you would expect. In booths dominated by Aboriginal people that we’ve checked so far, the Yes vote often climbed well above 70 per cent. However, if you zoom out to include the great majority of lower socioeconomic status non-Indigenous Australians living in the same federal seat, the No votes tended to win overwhelmingly because these people shared the same demographics as the strongest No voters.
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