What your spending habits (and other everyday behaviour) reveal about your politics

Your everyday behaviour, such as your spending habits or how much time you spend in front of a mirror or at the gym, betrays a surprising amount about your political views.Here are some of the unexpected ways our spending habits and other seemingly innocent behaviour reflect our politics and social values, according to new research from the Political Personas Project, one of the most comprehensive attempts to create profiles of different types of Australians based on their lifestyles, social values and politics. What kind of Australian are you? We asked thousands of people across Australia hundreds of questions, and used the answers to look for patterns.