TY - DATA T1 - Labor's shrinking constituency PY - 2017/05/05 AU - Birrell, Bob AU - Healy, Ernest AU - Allen, Lyle UR - https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Labor_s_shrinking_constituency/4976027 DO - 10.4225/03/590bfd1742018 L4 - https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/8370986 KW - Australia KW - monash:64061 KW - Ethnic constituency KW - journal article KW - Labor KW - 1039-4788 KW - Non-English background KW - 1959.1/481068 N2 - This article explores the extent to which Labor at the national level is becoming dependent on an ethnic constituency. It shows that in Melbourne and Sydney, the great majority of the seats which Labor held on to after the 2004 election were seats with significant concentrations of blue and lower white collar voters of Non-English-Speaking Background origin. Copyright. Monash University and the author/s ER -