Democracy and sausages not enough for voters
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But across the country, younger electorates – especially those in inner cities – struggled to get voters to turn out on May 18. Seats such as Sydney, Melbourne, Macnamara, Brisbane and Griffith, all with a median age in their early 30s, will fail to have turnouts of 90 per cent. By contrast, across the five electorates of Tasmania, the nation’s oldest state with median ages of up to 45, voter turnout slightly increased to 94.2 per cent.
The lead researcher of the Australian National University’s Australian Election Study, Ian McAllister, said it appeared younger people had been enrolled, but hadn’t turned up to vote.
The same-sex plebiscite of 2017 resulted in a surge in younger people joining the electoral roll.Credit:Chris Hopkins
He said when voting ages were dropped to 18 from 21 across the globe, there had been an increase in the number of people on the rolls but a fall in turnout. Australia’s compulsory voting system held that at bay, but it now appeared younger people were just not as engaged as older voters.
“They’re enrolled to vote but they’re not that interested in it. They’re not socialised into the habit of voting as older generations have been,” he said.
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