Why voters believe the economy is in trouble
I think Ross Gittins' explanation here of the difference between perceptions and reality regarding the Australian economy is accurate.
The other huge perception issue that Labor faces is that the Gillard government has been in continual crisis due to its narrow numbers in Parliament. In fact, it seems to me that it is only on the asylum seeker issue that it has not been able to achieve what it wanted to legislatively.
Of course, the one perception issue on which people are right is that New South Wales Labor had been rotten for years. I don't really see why Federal Labor should be punished for that*, but everyone expects they will.
* just as I don't see that the Federal Liberal Party necessarily deserves to suffer for the Queensland LNP being a dysfunctional wreck for much of the last 10 years, although admittedly not in a way which has financially profited members...
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