Dutton’s defeat was hailed as proof that Australia had resisted the populist political currents that have gained ground in the United States and Europe. Minister for Multicultural Affairs Anne Aly said:“This brand of far-right activism grounded in racism and ethnocentrism has no place in modern Australia." In the case of March for Australia, those problems, as Albanese correctly identified them, include economic, especially housing affordability. The problem of vastly widening economic inequality is real. Framing fundamental economic injustice as intergenerational inequality or a cost-of-living crisis diverts attention from the real economic crisis Australia is facing: a crisis of class-based inequality that is seeing an increasing number of Australians disenfranchised.