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A recent poll of Australians under 45 has found overwhelming support for Albanese’s proposal to enshrine an Indigenous Voice within our nation’s constitution.
Much like the 2022 Federal Election, this exact voter block will be who decides the result of this upcoming referendum, as much as the Murdoch media and Liberal Opposition would like to maintain the fantasy that the angry grey army are still the most powerful political force in our democracy.
After losing over 20 seats in Parliament, the comically detached shiraz conservatives within both NewsCorp and the Coalition have yet to update their playbook – and are still relying on their tired Scomo-era culture wars tactics to win votes.
Unfortunately, this brand of politics does not seem to work with young people, many of whom became radicalised against conservative politics by the previous government’s apathetic responses to the Black Summer bushfires. This is catastrophic news for the right-wing media commentators and politicians, who are staring down an existential crisis if the nation acknowledges that Aboriginal people actually deserve a bit of love.
On top of this, Australian right-wing politics is unable to get young people to look past the generational wealth-hoarding and market manipulation that has caused the current housing crisis.
The only trick that our conservative political class and media pundits have left to play is to make up conspiracies about ‘The Indigenous Voice’ being a secret communist agenda to strip property assets from Australians and giving the keys to Aboriginal people.
In worse news for the No Campaign, these kinds of populist conspiracies only excite Australia’s nihilistic youth voters.
“Fuck yeah” said local Betoota-based Millennial, Kylie Joe (38, accountant, two kids)
“I wouldn’t mind a full reset”
As Kylie points out, it appears lost on conservatives that Millennials have aged out of the ‘flat white and avocado’ stereotypes – and are now actually trying to raise families without any assets to ‘conserve’.
They aren’t just supportive of both constitutional recognition and a constitutionally recognised Indigenous advisory bodies, they’d be quite happy with a far more radical model.
“I say go harder” she says.
“Destroy the system, eradicate property investors. Hand it all over the Indigenous people. I’ve got far more trust in them than I do with the current political class”
“As someone whose just had the rent doubled on my black-mould-infested family home. I reckon they’ve got to better than our current landlords”
