It's a bit dangerous to define left and right by political parties. It could just as easily be the case that the parties have switched sides. Or the move away from the coalition is the same across all age groups and reflects specific policies. The ABC itself certainly seems confused. They are happy to support Islamic terrorists if there is any way to paint them as victims. They are happy to promote racism and corruption if it favours aborigines. But they are loathe to support democracy, human rights etc in an even handed manner. And they do all this by attempting to re-writing the narrative as some kind of woke, fake-left BS. I think there are some far more subtle and interesting trends behind this than how the ABC has attempted to spin it.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/millennials-rewriting-the-rules-of-australian-politics/106050836


Quote:

Millennials are the first generation to move left Millennials came of age as the internet and smartphones redefined the world, and now they are the generation rewriting the rules of Australian politics. They are defying the long-held wisdom that voters often become more conservative as they age, and are, in fact, becoming more progressive as they mature. The findings come from the latest Australian Election Study (AES) from the Australian National University, one of the most substantial deep dives into voting trends at federal elections conducted since 1987. Millennials' support for the Coalition fell from 38 per cent in 2016 to 21 per cent in 2025, while Labor's support rose from 33 per cent to 37 per cent, the latest AES found.

When I tried to spin it
38 per cent in 2016 to 21 per cent in 2025
it became
38 per cent in 2016 to 21 per cent in 2025

They will change their minds when they have to live in a car -

no housing is affordable.

Thanks Albo.   ::)

In that case, the ABC will give the correct spin.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 6^th, 2025 at 9:21am:

They will change their minds when they have to live in a car - no housing is affordable. Thanks Albo.   ::)

That will only hasten the drift from the major parties.

In Oz (with its preferentail voting system), that allows Labor to be elected with only c. 30% of the primary vote (same as the Coalition), while former Coal-ition voters splinter to Teals and One Nation.

But the Greens' vote isn't growing; people don't want governments to increase taxes.

The drift will continue if Labor can't house more people before the next election, with anti-immigrant people going to One Nation, and pro net zero people going to teal independents. 

The Left has all the seductive, glib slogans for people with the attention span of a gnat and education to match.

As for the Libs, nobody can say what they stand for.

Don't see how you can look at recent elections and define a meaningful trend. In this case all you really see is the fact that the Liberals put forward no viable options. Labor put up a list of poor options and the Liberals mostly put up no option at all.

Let us not forget the rising tide on Internet Borderline Syndrome, the massive intolerance, the video games brutality mindset designer created by 'war games' and such....the startling inability to read and think clearly ...the rising tides of diagnosable insanity of many kinds.... the utter lack of a genuine social and civic conscience...

Albo's one lasting legacy will be cutting dorks out of the internet.... to save their little minds from certain destruction..

Word for today:-

NETFLUX -        (i) internet dating
                       (ii) internet FITHs

Dnarever wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 10:35am:

Don't see how you can look at recent elections and define a meaningful trend. In this case all you really see is the fact that the Liberals put forward no viable options. Labor put up a list of poor options and the Liberals mostly put up no option at all.

The millennials & GenZers fell for all the free (taxpayer funded) stuff.
So they were bought. Great policy. ::)