Two-thirds of Australian voters believed that the economy had deteriorated in the lead up to the election. Ominously for NZ’s Labour Party, the Australian election was back in May when the worst of the cost-of-living crisis was still in the future. By the time NZ goes to the polls, there will have been much more economic pain than Australian voters had endured when they cast their ballots. According to the AES data, by 2022 Scott Morrison had become “the least popular major party leader on record”. The Australian election analysis confirms that leadership matters in these days of “presidential politics”.

Source: Stuff December 29, 2022 03:02 UTC