In the post-election diagnostics several people have recognized that a failure to connect with people of faith and anxieties concerning religious freedom was at least one reason why the ALP lost the election.
ALP shadow treasurer Chris Bowen penitently acknowledged, “I have noticed as I have been around during the election campaign … how often it has been raised with me that people of faith no longer feel that progressive politics cares about them.”
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