As young people the policy output of labor is applicable more than ever. On a state level you see the government dramatically overhaul the legislation around renting, empowering renters to have some control over their circumstances (a landlord can’t tell you not to have a pet anymore yay!).
At the federal level, labor has announced some fairly ambitious tax policies that are designed redistribute wealth from the wealth (older people) to the less wealthy (younger people), and also apply negative pressure on housing prices (again good for young people). It’s worth noting that the Greens have opposed some of these policies.
There are very good reasons to vote Greens and not Labor. Most of these centre on the fact that the Greens are far more progressive as far as refugee policy is concerned and as far as climate change is concerned. You may not agree with their policies in these areas, but many will be attracted, in particular, to a party that opposes mandatory detention and off-shore processing, which is a particular sticking point.
The argument that the Greens are too radical also holds some currency. We saw the example about the WTO, for instance, which is genuinely moronic policy, and not actually unlike Brexit in its conception interestingly.
It’s also worth noting that up until recently the Greens was an anti-Vax party. The founder of the Greens (Bob Brown), and its leader up until about 2011-2012ish from memory, allowed an anti-vaccination organisation to use his office pro bono to coordinate its opposition to a policy of mandatory vaccination at the federal level. It was actually this organisation that succeeded in having conscientious objection inserted into the law, something which Dr Brown (yeah it gets better, he was a GP too!!) publicly supported.
Some of the most evocative motifs in politics are cancer patients and children... and it’s not even an exaggeration to say that the Greens, in our life time, supported a policy that contributed to their death.
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