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title: "A Time for Mainstream Australians"
author: "Chris Berg"
date: "2019-05-22"
url: "https://chrisberg.org/media/a-time-for-mainstream-australians/"
show: "The Looking Forward Podcast"
audio: "https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zjx69b/Looking_Forward_Podcast_22-05-19.mp3"
source: "https://ipalookingforward.podbean.com/e/ep18-a-time-for-mainstream-australians/"
topics: "Australian politics, Democracy and elections"
---

# A Time for Mainstream Australians

Was the upset victory of the Morrison-led Coalition Government a stunning repudiation of the progressive left and its identity politics and climate change obsessions, or a vote by a conservative electorate for steady as she goes?