Who are Labor's 'new working class', and how did they help turn the state red?

A third of the nearly 400,000 public sector workers across NSW are women, and a third are aged under 35 — they are now seen as the 'biggest supporters of the red side of politics.'

abc.net.au/news/how-labor-s-new-working-class-helped-party-seal-nsw-election-win/102146898Labor's "new working class" were critical to the party's New South Wales election victory, a former Labor strategist says.A number of the seats flipped by Labor have high numbers of these workers

Commenting on the party's wins in the seats of Camden, Parramatta, Riverstone, Penrith and East Hills on Saturday night, Kos Samaras, a former Victorian Labor deputy campaign director, said public sector workers were the dominant cohort in those seats. "There's a slow realisation that this particular group, largely females, tertiary educated, are overwhelmingly the biggest supporters of the red side of politics."

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