Matt Bach says his party needs to stop listening to “selfish, rich geriatrics” and instead focus on what younger voters want.
Outgoing Liberal MP Matt Bach has thrown his support behind drug decriminalisation as he also urged his party to be braver in pursuit of younger voters who have turned off the Coalition.
“I’m not into drugs. I smoked cannabis once or twice in my younger days, but didn’t like it,” Bach said. “Nonetheless, as a liberal I find it hard to get worked up about what other adults may choose to put in their mouths. His comments come a week after Bach also called on the Liberals to “be brave” and support housing policies in the spirit of former prime minister Robert Menzies to turn their fortunes around with Millennial votes. He pointed to polls that showed the Liberals were dwarfed by Labor and beaten by the Greens in primary preferences.
The Victorian Coalition has previously been critical of the state’s safe-injecting room, focusing largely on its location and management. “Drugs have a serious and negative impact on developing brains: they must remain out of the hands of children. And drug use in adults is also linked to a whole series of adverse outcomes. It’s just that our current policy settings make these outcomes more likely, not less ..., and exacerbate them for good measure,” he said.
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