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The global trend for millennial voters to move more to the left is a big problem for the parties of the right and it had an impact on Australia’s last federal election.The global trend for millennial voters to move more to the left is a big problem for the parties of the right and it had an impact on Australia’s last federal election.Millennials are not behaving as expected.
The Coalition lost 18 seats and government, with almost all the lost seats in the major cities. The one bright spot for the Coalition was that they lost no rural seats. Rural seats are older. The 10 electorates with the smallest proportion of people under 40 are all rural seats . These are the seats that will see the slowest impact from millennials.But even here the demographics are against the Coalition.
But why are millennials continuing to vote left as they age? There are probably three main reasons, and they are all linked to their economic wellbeing.The first is the rise of insecure work. Whether it’s casual jobs, sham contracting, or labour hire, the number of insecure jobs is rising and younger workers are those most impacted. Millennials took the advice of their parents. They studied hard, with record numbers of them getting university degrees.
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