The Evolution of Australia's Populism

Australia's population is distributed by modally. You have a lot of people in rural centers and then most people in massive conurbations. We don't have that middle category of the medium sized cities that you have in the US and the UK. And to complicate this picture further, the Australian cities, which would have legitimate claim to kind of bang our versions of Detroit and Sheffield, have actually maintained their progressive identities. So yeah, that's all super interesting and makes complete sense. I also just want to offer one speculative explanation for why we've avoided the same levels of populism as the U.S.-UK.