Anthony Albanese is running out of time to solve Labor's climate crisis. He needs a plan that works for two Australias

A photograph of Anthony Albanese and Labor frontbenchers sitting in the House of Representatives during Question Time.
23 November 2020

During the recent American elections, the most eye-catching graphics were the individual county tallies.

These showed that even when states appeared to be overwhelmingly Republican red, some still "flipped" to the Democrats on the strength of a smaller number of blue squares.

The trick? These azure islands denoted population clusters in cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and Phoenix.

The left-right chasm between urbanised Americans and the more sparsely distributed rural-regional ones was there to see in primary colours.

But the division itself was neither new, nor especially American.

Across England's industrial north, British Labour's Euro-centric cosmopolitanism cut little ice in the Brexit referendum of 2016, the same year once rusted-on working class Democrats first broke for Trump.

Read the full article on The Conversation website, authored by Prof Mark Kenny

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