1 May

Australia follows a pattern also seen in the US and other places. The real tension is between urban and rural environments. The more urban a society is, the more cosmopolitan voters tend to be. Living in cities encourages less extreme views, as people need to learn to live close together. The more extreme views tend to come from rural areas. Australia is rightly considered one of the most sane and pleasant places to live on the planet. A large part of that is that Australia is highly urbanised. The reason Crocodile Dundee was such an enormous Aussie hero was that it tapped into the mythology of Australians, that they all live in the 'outback' (never defined). Nearly everybody huddles the coast, in cities. Those who live outside the cities are usually just current or old outposts of city industries - mines and farms. European Australia never came to terms with the land itself. You can see why the LNP (blues) so strongly opposed The Voice, they mostly represent the places Aboriginal people still occupy.