Greens candidate for the seat of Page, Kudra Falla-Ricketts has welcomed recent data from the Australian Electoral Commission that shows a recent spike in young voter enrolments.
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has revealed that 18 year old voter enrolment had risen sharply from 51% to 71% since April. Overall the percentage of 18-24 year olds enrolled to vote is now standing at 86.7%.
‘This is a great result,’ says Greens candidate Kudra Falla-Ricketts.
‘We have been very active in encouraging young people to engage with politics and get on the roll. With issues like housing affordability, university fees and deregulation, homelessness and climate change at stake in this election, young people need to tune in or risk being left behind by an increasing generational wealth gap and a worsening climate crisis.’
Falla-Ricketts says the Greens policies on winding back unfair tax breaks for property investors, such as negative gearing and capital gains discounts would help restore the dream of eventual home ownership for a generation that is losing hope.
‘The Greens oppose university fee deregulation that could lead to $100 000 degrees and support increased funding for Universities and TAFES.
She says the emerging renewables sector could also help produce a jobs boom for regional Australia because the jobs in the renewables sector are in installations and this means local jobs.
‘The old economy of fossil fuels concentrated jobs in coal mines and the central grid system, but renewables would stimulate a regional jobs boom in a new industry. This could only be good news for young people.’
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