… and then, in the penultimate paragraph, they undermine their thesis by pointing out that The Greens are successfully soaking up the economically precarious young voters who the thesis argues are easy pickings for the far right.

[–] No1@aussie.zone 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's like the 2 (3 if you count the nationals) major parties are jealous and upset about not getting young voters.

They can't be surprised, can they?

[–] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 4 points 10 months ago

I think the three major party's young voting contingent must be made up of those who stand to inherit significant wealth from their parents. Their policies certainly are only aimed at that cohort.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

culturally homogenous group of privileged university students

This feels like a misread as we have very high rates of university completion in Australia amongst young people. I'm all for bringing in all types, but this is the type of insult you'd expect from a conservative rag whining about "inner-city elites" and not a Labor aligned think tank.

There is some threat of right-wing populism in any country (including Australia), and that economic issues shouldn't be ignored. Hopefully people have the sense to go to the Greens rather than fall for the obvious lies of the far-right.