Capital cities in a bubble

David Farrar shows the results of the Australian Voice referendum.

All states and the Northern Territory had significant majorities for those voting against the proposal. Only Act, home of the federal government, had a majority voting yes.

On this side of the Tasman, New Zealand’s capital Wellington, managed to withstand the blunami and voted red and green.

Is it too long a bow to draw to say that this is evidence that people in cities where there is a big number of bureaucrats and people working with and for government are in a bubble?

Does it show that in that bubble they are out of touch with the mood in the rest of the country?

Is this why we’ve had so many impractical rules and unpopular policies imposed on us in the last six years?

Dare we hope a new government with so many electorate MPs everywhere but the capital will make a positive difference?