Election 2022 (Poll added)

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The Silent Generation, those people born before 1946, number close to 1.4 million.

Only a small minority were educated to year 11 standard, many leaving between years 8 and 10, with possibly 3 percent going to university.  Their formative years were spent in a society that did not welcome criticism of authority, particularly governments.

Quite a number  have had neither the means nor the motivation to engage meaningfully in today's society and have retreated to the comfort of their conservative values.

This is the group I refer to as rusted on LNP voters.

My brothers were born before 1946.  They grew up in a working class household in a working class neighbourhood.  Union membership was a given and Pig Iron Bob was the enemy of the people.

Our electorate has always returned a Labor member, apart from a brief flirtation with Phil Cleary.  Large areas of Melbourne’s north and west are still home to rusted on ALP voters from the 1940s, but the gentrification of suburbs is diluting their electoral importance.

Interestingly, many Teal supporters were rusted on Libs …