"Howard's battlers" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Named after former Prime Minister John Howard, the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister, winning four consecutive elections. Howard led the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition to a landslide victory in the 1996 federal election over Paul Keating's Labor government, which was widely credited with Howard's appeal with \"battlers\" (ordinary Australians, typically working-class or lower-middle-class).",
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        "(Australia, politics, usually in the plural) Alternative form of battler"
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  "word": "Howard's battlers"
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  "etymology_text": "Named after former Prime Minister John Howard, the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister, winning four consecutive elections. Howard led the centre-right Liberal/National Coalition to a landslide victory in the 1996 federal election over Paul Keating's Labor government, which was widely credited with Howard's appeal with \"battlers\" (ordinary Australians, typically working-class or lower-middle-class).",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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