The issues that determined the Victorian result
Saturday, 27 November 2010 08:42 | by Graham Young



Public Transport and Law and Order appear to have been the two most important issues to Liberal voters, and as the Liberals seem to have won, the deciding issues. I have been watching the ABC coverage as I write this and it makes it even clearer why public transport was an important issue.

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This table is ordered in terms of what Labor voters find important. Education and Health were their highest order issues. Transport less so. But what you notice is that Greens and Liberals were both similarly uninterested in Education and Health, but both their interests were raised by Transport. The other big issues for Liberal voters was Law and Order, while the Greens were the only ones to be interested in Water, Climate and Environment.

A number of things come out of this table. The Greens agenda is more ideological. While state government can do little about climate change, it is still a key Greens concern. Probably the issue about Public Transport is about managerial competency as much as concern about public transport per se. It is hard to see most Liberal voters being huge consumers of public transport, so I suspect it's not about personal experience but impressions.

The concern about Law and Order is a bit of an aberration. Only the Liberals are concerned, and by a huge amount compared to the other two parties.


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