RE: A shift to economic focus in Australian politics, a welcoming move. There are some whom, remain redundant in a progressive approach

Great responses and I can see you're engaged in politics, we may differ on some points but that's ok. No one agrees with each other 100% of the time. If we did, we wouldn't need politics or government.

Important to note Labor brought in a Carbon tax only for it to be removed by Liberals with the support of the Greens, we also took an ETS to the polls last election which is what lost us the nation. Lets not forget the mining tax that cost Rudd the leadership.

Gina, Twiggy, Rio Tinto et el, put together the largest political campaign in the history of the nation to scare and defeat it.

It's good you know the employment figures and that's where things get complicated, I've had this discussion with people in the past. Those figures are only a snapshot and through it, it looks small.

But now, you need to include income, location, supporting industries and electoral dispersion.

You will quickly see a broader picture than just 201k.

The industry that supports miners is greater again with catering, education, finance, health, local traders etc. Mining wages are quite significant. They are also able to support a family and live a quality of life as well as bolster up local economies on a mining wage.

Something that can't be done on those other wages. Somsthing that those supporting industries are aware of. So when you talk about cutting mining jobs (noting voters don't distinguish between coal miners and iron ore miners or any other miners) and entire community rallies behind them.

Furthermore, the electoral dispersion is that great that Labor lost the Federal election due to QLD. The electorates that were reliant on miners.

I'll go back to my original comment where I called Adam Bandt Redundant, Labor states have been building and implementing targets. I was amongst Friends of the Earth (FoE) when we pushed for a VRET and won. Leigh (Vegemite man) led a wonderful campaign. We went across the state engaging and speaking to communities to make it happen.

The issue isn't Labor not telling people, they are. There are plenty of announcements and driving around the state and many other Labor held states you will see it with your own eyes.

People, listen more to divisive and incorrect information in a phenomenon called identity politics.

Adam has never once promoted of even shown the electorate the renewable energy farms. If he did, people would leave him in flocks and go to Labor.

Labor's issue is that they didn't focus strong enough on bread and butter issues. We have the worst financial situation since WW2.

We have the highest qualified barristers who studied fields in uni but with no work to go onto or the ability to even afford to pay rent. Much like all those other industries you mentioned.

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