Why are the “Howard battlers” – working-class Australians who swung to the Liberals after the Hawke/Keating years – now turning back to Labor?If the opinion polls can be believed, Kevin Rudd will be the next Prime Minister of Australia after the federal election on November 24, and Labor will secure an overwhelming majority in the House of Representatives.Despite the lowest level of official unemployment for over 30 years and an economy enjoying an unprecedented economic boom which has now gone …
