Kos Samaras: The Future of Australian Politics

Kos Samaras has over 25 years of experience in advertising and politics. Between 2005 to 2019 he served as Victorian Labor’s Deputy Campaign Director and is now the Director of Redbridge Group Australia, a social and community research company.

He specialises in combining research and socio-political analysis to illustrate emerging trends within the Australian community. He joined Discernable to discuss why the entire continent is turning red (voting for Labor).

We discussed:

Kos' history as Deputy Campaign Director for Daniel Andrews
Why the Redbridge Group published proprietary data on Twitter for free
The importance of strong political oppositions
Lockdowns are political, not scientific
Why the Liberals are dying
How Liberals held seats in Sydney
The winning formula for the Liberal Party
Why Daniel Andrews is so angry
Kos' struggle with depression
Political infighting
How the Greens are taking over
Sydney's property market hurts Labor in NSW
Melbourne has poorer migrants and a dispersed Millennial class
Transgender and minority groups
Councils that fake surveys and won't collect your bins
Empathy for the unvaccinated
Questions from Twitter
The Indigenous Voice to Parliament
Labor will lose the next QLD election
The new elites
Who is going to pay for 'Labor's debt'?
What is Stoicism?
What Kos has learned from surveying people
Low Information Voters
What makes a good politician?
Asking Kos to argue against himself

Watch the full interview at: https://discernable.io/kos-samaras-the-future-of-australian-politics

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