Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?
- Written by Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney
At the 2016 federal election, a small but significant vote cast by foreign-born Australians and their families helped elect the Liberal Party. The voters backed conservative minor parties in typically Labor-leaning electorates, and their preferences flowed to the Liberals.
Electoral pundits made little of this phenomenon at the time, and the media...