Younger voters had more power in this election than ever. For the first time, Gen Z and millennials outnumbered baby boomers. Politics lecturer Intifar Chowdhury says the Coalition's policies largely alienated young voters.
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00:00we've been talking about the youth vote clumping together gen z and millennial voters so we've got
00:0818 to 45 which actually made up about a majority like about 48 of the electorate so obviously that
00:16had quite a bit of an influence at how the results played out young people tend to be socially more
00:23progressive and also very allergic to sort of extreme ideological tendencies that the coalition
00:29tried to play and that definitely you know push alienate a lot of young people away from the
00:36opposition from my research what i know that younger generations tend to be issue aligned and
00:42can swing based on what the moment demands and if you look into the election campaign what the
00:48electorate really wanted was stability it was rather than sort of fantastical policies or divisive
00:55policies what people were after were some sort of stability in in an environment of global chaos
01:03when where they're sort of grappling with hip pocket issues so it's really not that surprising to me that
01:09they they chose stability female voters particularly younger females tend to bear sort of the brunt of
01:17of um the cost of living crisis um they are the ones that got hit by the most and um as we know the
01:25coalition definitely has a woman's problem but uh what was rather abrasive was policies like
01:30you know the anti-work from home pitches which further alienated female voters not just the
01:36highly progressive highly educated affluent um sort of uh females in affluent electorates but also in
01:44outer suburbs as well so that definitely had a massive effect on the results obviously the greens
01:51um had a sharper pitch last time around when um climate change concerns were front and center
01:56um but this time around with cost of living probably they did not pitch as sharply um there was the the
02:04housing pitch from them that which was quite passionate but some experts um say that it is quite
02:10unfeasible in australia so what what ensued is a number of parliamentary grid logs uh greens being
02:16seen as blockers rather than enablers in key structural reforms that australia really needs
02:22particularly for housing affordability so that probably did not play out as the greens would have
02:28hoped and also with a dwindling liberal sort of vote in in liberal basis what happened with because we have
02:36preferential voting is liberal voters preferences are more likely to flow into the labor party who are
02:42ideologically closer than the greens who are further left so that kind of makes sense um adam band also
02:48kind of suggested how um the liberal vote uh vote the ex-liberal voters did kind of uh like a protester vote
02:56against the incumbent um greens in inner inner city um brisbane of inner city queensland suburbs that the
03:04greens lost with the senate it's a different story altogether voters kind of know that uh minor parties
03:11um you know need to be there in order to um in order to check the the major parties and make sure that
03:20state preferences are um are taken care of as well so i think when voters are voting they have the two
03:27types of you know electoral systems in mind as well
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