Big Dave wrote on Jun 14^th, 2013 at 6:35pm:



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I have no idea what you are talking about. To me it comes across as jealousy. Perhaps if one nation is still around in twenty years and done the hard yards the Greens have done, then your party may be in a similar position.

skippy. wrote on Jun 14^th, 2013 at 4:16pm:

how do you honestly interpret that from that chart? the people with the lowliest and most uneducated professions evidently vote labor.

JC Denton wrote on Jun 14^th, 2013 at 8:27pm:

You obviously fit well into the conservative group if you need to ask that question. Just about every profession that votes GREENS needs a tertiary education. Where as most if not all of the Liberal voters could do the job with no formal qualifications.

skippy. wrote on Jun 14^th, 2013 at 8:33pm:


how do you reconcile that then with the fact that labor voters are even stupider? greens are evidently the smartest/best educated of the three (no doubt) but labor is by far the dumbest. the hierarchy is greens - liberals - labor (a distant third).

im the smartest here and dont like any of those three parties why doesnt the study say anything about that?

Train and Tram Drivers are over 60% more likely to vote Labor than the average voter, while Police are almost 60% more likely to vote Liberal. Intelligence and Policy Analysts are almost three times more likely than the average Aussie to vote for the Greens.
Data from Roy Morgan Research shows which professions are most likely to vote above the norm for each of the major parties this September. View the attached table for a clear view of which jobs are more likely to vote which way.
An electorate of only Train and Tram Drivers, Intelligence and Policy Analysts and Mail Sorters would give a landslide to the ALP (but the party would be left seat-less if only Defence Force personnel, Manufacturers and Financial Advisers got a ballot), while if only Primary School Teachers voted, we’d have a neck-and-neck Federal Election this September.
60% of Crane, Hoist and Lift Operators, 53% of Train and Tram Drivers and 50% of Food and Drink Factory Workers give their first preference vote to the ALP, while over 60% of Defence Force members, Chief Executives, Police, Manufacturers, and Financial Investment Advisers, Managers and Brokers vote Liberal.
Overall, jobs within the larger categories of Labourers, Machinery Operators and Drivers, Technicians and Trades Workers, and Community and Personal Service Workers are more likely than average to vote Labor, while Clerical and Administrative Workers and Managers are more likely to vote Liberal and those classified as Professionals are over 50% more likely to vote Greens.
The professions most skewed toward voting Greens cover a wide range of professions, from the unsurprising Social Professionals (33%) and Environmental Scientists (30%) to Intelligence and Policy Analysts (29%), Judicial and Other Legal Professionals (28%) and Psychologists (27%). Other professions with a more than double-the-average rate of voting Greens include Medical Laboratory Scientists, Librarians, and Software and Applications Programmers.
The professionals most likely to vote Family First are Meat, Poultry and Seafood Process Workers, Delivery Drivers, Waiters and Dental Assistants. Ministers of Religion are the 7th most likely at 7%—just behind Retail Supervisors.
Farmers of all stripes dominate the National Party’s list, although Cabinetmakers, Hotel and Motel Managers and Bus and Coach Drivers make the Top 10.
The proportion of Plasterers and Midwives voting Labor is dead-on average, as is that of Truck Drivers voting Liberal and Storepersons voting Greens.
Michele Levine, CEO, Roy Morgan Research, says:
“It is interesting that while each of Labor’s Top 10 jobs is blue collar—consistent with the party’s traditional base—there is more variety within the Liberal and Greens lists: CEOs and Livestock Farmers are both over 50% more likely to vote Liberal than average, while Policy Analysts, Graphic Designers and Social Workers are all almost three times more likely than average to go Greens.
“Survey Interviewers are 18% more likely to... give no answer when asked for their first preference vote.”
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Source: Roy Morgan Single Source (Australia) January 2011 – December 2012, n = 87,416.

the link is in the original post

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14^th, 2013 at 9:19pm:




Lucky aye ... imagine how lost you would be if an intelligent person was running rings around you, rather than an me.

And it was 16 since at 15 I would not have been able to escape being a ward of the state.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jun 14^th, 2013 at 9:33pm: