However, there have been studies that have explored the advantages and disadvantages associated with the 5% of the eligible electorate who fail to vote, with Labor making a net gain in votes when turnout is high and the Coalition benefiting when the turnout is low (McAllister, 1986). ... The Labor party was originally formed by trade unions in the 1890's with an agenda of protecting wage-earners who were considered to be members of the 'working class', whereas the Liberal party which replaced the United Australian Party in 1944 attracted 'forgotten' members of t...

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As provisional it was as no other age has been provisional, an age of assimilation and recuperation, a political pause, a gathering up of the ideas of men and the resources of science for a wider human effort. ... The failure of the great creative ideas as they had been formulated in the Middle Ages had left human thought for a time destitute of the guidance of creative ideas; even educated and imaginative men saw the world ungrammatically; no longer as an interplay of effort and destiny, but as the, scene in which a trite happiness was sought and the milder virtues were rewarded. ... Politica...

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