Why do Labor and the Coalition have so many similar policies? It’s simple mathematics

By Gabriele Gratton, Professor of Politics and Economics and ARC Future Fellow, UNSW Sydney

Pundits and political scientists like to repeat that we live in an age of political polarisation. But if you sat through the second debate between Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition leader Peter Dutton last Wednesday night, you’d be forgiven for asking what polarisation people are talking about.

While the two candidates may have different values, as Albanese said, the policies they propose and the view…

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