The Age Editorial: Labor's policies best reflect our values

As our readers know, we support Labor's national broadband network strategy, its commitment to increasing the superannuation guarantee levy, its Gonski schools funding plan, and its shift from a carbon price to an emissions trading scheme. We also support the deal it forged between business and environmentalists that led to areas of Tasmania's western wilderness being added to the World Heritage Area. In our view, these programs are initiatives towards generational change. They are visionary, forward-thinking and nation-building, not gimmicks devised to meet a three-year election cycle.

But, as the SMH pointed, they are alone:

Daily Telegraph – Coalition
Sydney Morning Herald – Coalition
Australian Financial Review – Coalition
The Australian – Coalition
Adelaide Advertiser – Coalition
Hobart Mercury – Coalition
Herald Sun – Coalition
The Age – Labor
West Australian – Coalition
NT News – Coalition
Courier Mail – Coalition
Canberra Times - Coalition

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