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*What negative gearing and transgender rights reveal about the Liberals' populist strategy*

/By chief digital political correspondent Clare Armstrong/
/ Topic:Government and Politics, Analysis, ABC News Australia/

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"For years the Coalition's answer to the rise of conservative populism
has been to treat it primarily as a cultural phenomenon.

Under Angus Taylor, that instinct appears to be hardening.

Yet while the Coalition reaches for battles on things like gender
identity, One Nation is turning to a very different playbook rCo embracing forms of economic populism once more commonly associated with the Greens.

Pauline Hanson and Larissa Waters are two very different Queenslanders,
but both can see voters feel the 'system' has become tilted against
ordinary Australians.

For the Liberals this raises the question that if voters are drifting
toward populist parties because of economic grievances, can culture war politics really win them back?

Such has been the furore around Labor's plan to overhaul the capital
gains tax system, that its reining in of negative gearing is almost a
mere footnote in the budget wash-up."

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Well, I suppose for those punters who can not afford to buy their own
homes and are even struggling to pay the rent for a substandard
accommodation the most important thing in their lives must be the
fighting of the never ending wars against the tiny number of transgender people. Makes a lot of sense, eh? NOT?!

The LNP has completely lost its economic mojo and thereby its
attractiveness for the great unwashed given its countless decades long diligent servitude to its millionaire/billionaire class masters.
Thus the chicken finally came home to roost! Shock horror!

Alas, in a last ditch of desperation Lieberals decided to try to copy
the Trumpist method of fighting manufactured grievances instead of
offering real economic solutions for improving the fortunes of the wide electorate.
After all, this is by far the easiest solution for destroying your
political opponents. It costs you pittance in effort to dump divisive
hate and scare propaganda into the public domain compared to doing the
hard yards of coming up with workable solutions for the current
difficult economic problems plaguing our country.

Yea! So let's just out One Nation One Nation on the culture wars fronts.
What could go wrong?
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