Question 1: Who will you be voting for? Why?
I'm still enrolled in Wills, haven't really decided if I'm going to update my address or not. I'm thinking I probably won't because I don't even know who the candidates here are. Also Wills is somewhat marginal and Canberra is a safe Labor seat lol.
I'm sure it's no surprise that I'll be voting for the Greens, although honestly I don't know if that'd be the case if I changed my address, I guess I'd have to figure out who the candidates round here are at least.
The candidates in Wills are Peter Khalil (labor) and Adam Pulford (greens)
and a bunch of other people who have no chancePeter supposedly has been doing some good stuff locally, I kind of dislike him because of how crap his campaign was in 2016 though. I remember trying to look him up at the time and all I could find was generic speeches about generic policies (mostly housing affordability, which seems to be what labor campaigns on in that area). Compared to Samantha Ratnam who was the greens candidate at the time (she's now the leader of the victorian greens) who was constantly out talking to people and attending community events and stuff (apparently she's very convincing), to me it kinda seemed like he was just there to be a generic labor member. Locally though, he seems to be doing fine so I wouldn't be surprised if there's a lot of people voting for him because of that. More widely though, labor policies just aren't moving fast enough - their target is 50% renewable energy by 2030. Last year renewable energy made up 21% of Australia's energy generation - the year before that it was 17% and the year before that 17.3%. Given the 12 years we have to limit the worst of climate damage, their target being 50% by 2030 is kinda ridiculous.
Despite the swing to the greens at the last election, and the greens winning my state electorate, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Labor wins the seat again. There's a lot of very left wing people in my area, and I'd imagine that climate change would be a big issue for a lot of them. However, the more north you go the more labor it gets, which tends to be why Brunswick and Northcote (state electorates) are more green than Wills and Batman (the federal electorates encompassing them). As much as I'd like Adam to win it, I think I'm expecting it to go to labor again. At least the results are interesting to watch when it's close.
I find it kinda funny that there's any similarity with one nation. Although if you actually go through and click on their policy it doesn't really match up, the abc just split the policy into agree-disagree options. Although I'd argue that some of the statements from One Nation don't justify them being put in the category they are in.