Of course this has helped Malinauskas. What other possibility is there after his stance on the comments by Randa Abdel-Fattah?
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The defamation legal action against Peter Malinauskas is probably the best thing that has happened to him, politically. As the article suggests, it further solidifies the perception of Malinauskas as a mainstream pragmatist who stands up to radical divisive activists seeking to further tear up the social fabric.
The Greens have shown that they’re willing to get in bed with the right and and far-right when it suits. The Greens have formed government with the Liberals in Tasmania and are in deep negotiations to form an alliance with the Liberals in the ACT, overthrow the Labor government and install a joint Liberal-Green government. It is therefore plausible to believe that there is a chance that the Greens may preference the far-right Liberals above Labor in SA in order to protest the Fattah saga, even though that the Liberals’ policy would probably be to scrap AWW permanently. The same SA Liberals with deep links to the Australian branch of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. If this happens, will it have any major electoral impacts for Labor in the election?
LordWalderFrey1 on
I mean he was never going to lose the election because of this, and any movement was within the left, between Labor and the Greens or left aligned independents.
I’d like to see the data though that this has helped him, and whether this has moved Liberal voters who wouldn’t have voted for him otherwise. Otherwise these quotes are political gossip.
I suspect outside of the left fringe of politics and the arts community, this hasn’t moved the needle much either way.
VaughanThrilliams on
maybe it has, but the article is from a paper extremely hostile to the pro-Palestine movement and doesn’t actually cite polling to evidence this bolstering, it’s just speculation from unnamed Labor and Liberal strategists who have every incentive to come to that conclusion
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Of course this has helped Malinauskas. What other possibility is there after his stance on the comments by Randa Abdel-Fattah?
The defamation legal action against Peter Malinauskas is probably the best thing that has happened to him, politically. As the article suggests, it further solidifies the perception of Malinauskas as a mainstream pragmatist who stands up to radical divisive activists seeking to further tear up the social fabric.
The Greens have shown that they’re willing to get in bed with the right and and far-right when it suits. The Greens have formed government with the Liberals in Tasmania and are in deep negotiations to form an alliance with the Liberals in the ACT, overthrow the Labor government and install a joint Liberal-Green government. It is therefore plausible to believe that there is a chance that the Greens may preference the far-right Liberals above Labor in SA in order to protest the Fattah saga, even though that the Liberals’ policy would probably be to scrap AWW permanently. The same SA Liberals with deep links to the Australian branch of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA. If this happens, will it have any major electoral impacts for Labor in the election?
I mean he was never going to lose the election because of this, and any movement was within the left, between Labor and the Greens or left aligned independents.
I’d like to see the data though that this has helped him, and whether this has moved Liberal voters who wouldn’t have voted for him otherwise. Otherwise these quotes are political gossip.
I suspect outside of the left fringe of politics and the arts community, this hasn’t moved the needle much either way.
maybe it has, but the article is from a paper extremely hostile to the pro-Palestine movement and doesn’t actually cite polling to evidence this bolstering, it’s just speculation from unnamed Labor and Liberal strategists who have every incentive to come to that conclusion