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

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

no housing is affordable.

Thanks Albo.   

Bobby. wrote Yesterday at 9:21am:


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.