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What issues Canberrans care about this election
The Canberra Times
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4/28/2025
The issues Canberrans want candidates to take action on in the 2025 federal election.
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I care about the public service, because I was a public service myself once.
00:04
I also care about the environment.
00:06
I think the lack of movement on the environment was a bit sad,
00:09
and I've noticed the lack of sighting of our environment minister during this election.
00:15
And I'm also concerned about gambling ads.
00:19
So I think those three things are enough to help me decide how to vote.
00:23
Look, certainly more affordable homes for people in and around the region
00:27
are very important to me and my family.
00:30
Some control over our spending, a stronger stance on international affairs
00:37
and particularly what's happening in Gaza.
00:40
Those things are very important to us as a society,
00:43
so I think we need to stand up for those, and our government needs to stand up for those.
00:47
Basically, my main concern is, because the world is just such a crazy place at the moment,
00:56
we're not alone, but Australia needs to put itself number one without co-tailing to anyone,
01:04
I'm afraid, especially not to America.
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And it is very important for us to look at the arts, because arts feed everything.
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It feeds your well-being, it fills your education.
01:18
You know, it's just everywhere, except nobody talks about the arts.
01:22
And my second issue is obviously education, and health, and of course housing.
01:32
Everybody talks about housing, but nobody talks about how we got to it, how we got to this situation.
01:40
And I don't think because, from my point of view, because no one is talking about it,
01:45
nothing's going to be done.
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I'm not being negative or pessimistic.
01:51
I am an optimist.
01:53
And, you know, when I bought my first house, I worked two jobs.
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My partner worked two jobs.
02:01
We worked like dogs.
02:02
I'm not kidding.
02:03
And we loved it, because we knew what we want.
02:06
And I don't think young people nowadays have that choice, which is really sad.
02:13
And that's one thing that needs to be fixed somehow.
02:17
I don't know how.
02:21
The other thing that I would like to say is that the Korean politicians really need to get off their high horse
02:27
and need to start realising that we are their bosses.
02:33
They work for us.
02:34
Stop buying your multi-million dollar mansions.
02:40
Stop giving yourselves incredible pay rises.
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And start looking at Australia as a whole and not just an individual.
02:50
Because I believe that's what's happened.
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