Polls favor the left-leaning Labor Party, crafting a counternarrative to the conservative rise in the West and elsewhere.
By A. Odysseus Patrick May 17 at 10:04 AM SYDNEY — Poll after poll in Australia arrive at the same conclusions: Voters are tired of political instability after revolving-door leadership for years, and they seek stronger action on global warming.
A Labor victory in Australia also could provide a morale shot for U.S. Democrats and other left-of-center parties around the world, including the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, which has long had close ties to its Australian counterpart. The Labor Party wants Australia to generate half its electricity from solar, wind and other renewable sources by 2030, a huge shift for a nation with the world’s fourth-largest coal reserves and the eighth-biggest natural gas industry.
The Labor Party has promised more free health care, greater spending on education and tax cuts for the middle and working classes. The wealthy should be forced to pay higher taxes and unions given more power, it has said.
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