text: Go figure. When the esteemed Royal Australasian College of Physicians met in Cairns in May the agenda was dominated by the rights of asylum seekers, divestment from fossil fuels and the administration of transgender medication.
  While the doctors worked their way through a playbook that seemed more at home at a Greens Party conference, the Coalition was honing its budget pitch to tradies to "have a go" and update their tool kit.
  As this week's Essential Report shows, the type of work we do no longer defines how we vote. Professionals are becoming the new progressives, while the loyalty of the working classes to Labor is ebbing.