Knock-on effect: Greens to target 'quiet Australians' next

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% :Bates says middle-class voters - in areas of his seat that were considered Labor or Liberal strongholds - were mostly "excited" about the idea of universal social services.
57% : This concept that you have a social right to dental care, you have a social right to free university education, allows us to build very broad-ranging class coalitions because you appeal to a politics that Labor used to represent but no longer does."
53% : "This concept that we should be getting our fair share from mining corporations, that billionaires and corporations should pay their fair share in tax - when you speak to people in suburban areas and rural and regional communities - is broadly popular.

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