So it was amazing electioneering by the Coalition - that they could prompt the poor to vote for tax cuts for the rich.
It's tax cuts for lower-income people, too. At around $1,000 for those on incomes of minimum wage or so, it's not huge - but it will make a difference.
Labor has unfortunately forgotten it used to be the party of the working class. If it had some policies to create working class jobs then the working and unemployed classes might have a reason to vote for them.
But again, people here are focusing on Lib vs Lab, and forgetting that
the primary vote declined for both of them. Nationally, people were saying "fuck you both" and going for Greens, UAP and PHON. Over 25% of the electorate feel that the major parties do not represent their views. The second and later preferences of the people who dislike the major parties are determining elections. ALP would have a lot fewer seats without Greens help, and Lib would have a lot fewer seats without UAP/PHON help.
A 1 or 2 seat majority does not exactly indicate a sweeping mandate for any party, but increasingly this is what we are seeing in federal and state parliaments both. Consider that if we had a parliamentary system where seats were allocated by share of party vote (as parliaments like Israel's do, or half of NZ's parliament), neither party would be anywhere near a majority.