The 2007 Australian election: blue-collar voters, migrants and the environment

Search Swinburne Research Bank

Home

List of Titles

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/36508

Download PDF (Published version) (Adobe Acrobat PDF, -1 bytes)

Title: The 2007 Australian election: blue-collar voters, migrants and the environment
Author(s): Betts, Katharine
Abstract: The 2007 Australian Election Study shows that many blue-collar voters, the so-called Howard battlers, returned to Labor. Combined with earlier surveys it also shows that non-English-speaking-background migrants have consistently been more likely to vote Labor than the Australia-born. They were particularly likely to do so in 2007, especially if they were in blue-collar occupations. The Howard Government’s Work Choices legislation probably played a role in these outcomes. However, the data also show that Labor’s environmental policy also played an important part. Thirty five per cent of voters were influenced by an environmental issue during the campaign, more than were affected by any other set of issues. Concern about the environment is spread across all occupational groups, though it is rather more pronounced among professionals.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
Source: People and Place, Vol. 16, no. 2 (2008)
Publication year: 2008
Keyword(s): ALP; Australian; Australian Labor Party; Elections; Environmental policy; Federal government; Howard Government; Migrants; Occupations; Perceptions; Surveys; Work
Publisher: Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research
ISSN: 1039-4788
Publisher URL: http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/482278
Full text
Peer reviewed