Letter
It’s not about sex, it’s about type
We all think we like a musician, movie star or sports star. We think we know them. Often, it’s their choice to represent themselves for their own advancement and we believe the good guy, bad guy image they portray.
The same applies to our politicians and, like our influencers, we seldom know them at all. For example, if you believe his wife and what’s sometimes written about Peter Dutton, he “is no monster“. But it turns out many Australians don’t like him and won’t vote for him as their front man.
When it comes to our politicians, we seldom know them, but we typecast them: private school, union thug, nice guy, nice guy but… , good bloke, farmer, poor little rich boy, arrogant, etc
So when it comes to voting, it is seldom about what we know, it’s about the type.
I will leave it to you to judge our political class, past and present, but consider (in no particular order ) these candidates: Pyne, Palmer, Hawke, Brown , Mirabella, Hanson, Chip, Abbott, Shorten, Credlin, Plibersek, Hanson-Young, Keating, Rudd, Cash, Whitlam and Joyce.
— Bob Pearce from Adelaide SA