Politicians love symbols, whether it's standing in front of a wall of flags, wearing a ribbon on their lapel or being photographed with workers in hard hats.
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| Protestors gather at Federal Parliament this week to oppose the Adani coal mine. |
Voters love symbols, too. Political travel expenses are, for many voters, a symbol of all that's wrong with politics. Traffic jams are a symbol of all that's wrong with immigration policy and the number of women in cabinet is a symbol of a party's concern about gender equity. Of course, different issues have different importance for different voters.
Read the comment by Richard Denniss in The Canberra Times - “Adani coal mine: Matt Canavan's symbolic war that went wrong."
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