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The New Daily
The New Daily
Simon Kuestenmacher

​​The Stats Guy: Demographic advice for self-interested politicians

Last week I was provocative and praised politicians. Let’s turn the cynicism up again for this week’s column. We will put ourselves into the shoes of a self-interested, egomaniac of a politician only interested in getting elected and doesn’t, therefore, care about the non-voting population of Australia.

How could such a politician (you decide whether this is a fictional character or not…) use ABS Census data to pick which policies to support and which cohort’s problems to ignore?

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