Young Australians are not embracing conservative politics as they age like previous generations did, prompting Liberal MPs to urge the party to transform.
The Coalition could lose the next six elections because Millennials and Generation Z voters aren’t shifting towards conservatives as they get older, prompting five Liberal MPs to urge the party to transform its relationship with younger Australians.
And for Generation Z, who were first eligible to vote in a federal election from 2014, support for the Coalition is falling, rather than increasing. This group is the least likely of any post-war generation to support the Coalition. “If Gen Z support for the Coalition stays where it is and the generation that comes after has similarly low support then even if Boomers, Gen X and Millennials keep shifting towards the Coalition at the rates we have seen in the past, that still isn’t enough for the Coalition to return to government in the next six elections,” he said.“For many Millennials, it’s a Greens to Labor transition under way rather than Labor to Liberals, as it was for Boomers and Gen X.
“For example, the Liberal Party is the party of homeownership and we are working to offer policies that encourage more young Australians into their first home,” he said. Senior Liberal adviser turned pollster Tony Barry believes the Liberal Party has come to accept the orthodoxy that younger people don’t vote for them, resulting in policies geared towards older voters in areas such as housing, superannuation, climate change and conservative social policy.
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