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Flat White

Shorten’s mandate theory falls short

25 August 2016

1:32 PM

25 August 2016

1:32 PM

One thing about close election results is that they give rise to a lot of waffle about mandates. The Labor opposition has brought something new to this debate with what we might call the Shorten theory of the mandate, which goes something like this: if you lose the election but almost win, your entitlement is to share power with the side that won but almost lost.

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