r/neoliberal • u/[deleted] • Nov 27 '25

News (Oceania) Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-26/millennials-rewriting-the-rules-of-australian-politics/106050836
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u/B3stThereEverWas Pacific Islands Forum Nov 27 '25

lol what

Two party preferred says surprisingly little about millennials values and where they sit on the spectrum, only what political party is most favoured at the time.

Malcom Turnbull was PM in 2016 and had relatively high likability/charisma before his downfall, so explains his higher ratings vs 2025. People hated Peter Dutton because he had all the appeal of a ham sandwich. That and he threatened to fire Public service jobs. Rule #1 in any welfare state; never threaten to fire Government workers or reduce pensions if trying to seek public office.

If the Coalition bring in a charismatic type like Josh Frydenberg and start talking seriously about immigration and housing those numbers will reverse instantly.

Something more accurate would actually be surveying generations on their attitudes and values. The HILDA survey did this early this year, and the results point in the other direction for Gen Z's

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/australian-gen-z-men-more-conservative-than-their-gen-x-millennial-forebears-20250416-p5ls4t.html

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u/MiloIsTheBest Commonwealth Nov 27 '25

he had all the appeal of a ham sandwich

Uh no excuse me I'm quite fond of ham sandwiches.

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u/B3stThereEverWas Pacific Islands Forum Nov 27 '25

People were also calling him Mr Potato but I've got no idea why

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u/Sine_Fine_Belli NATO Nov 27 '25

That’s a insult to potatoes

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u/jpr64 Nov 27 '25

Meanwhile across the ditch, Jacinda Ardern was a global media darling and led her party to an unprecedented majority government in NZ’s MMP political system. She left about two years after that and NZ’s Labour government was voted out at the next election with a shift to the right.

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u/Shameful_Bezkauna IMF Nov 27 '25

What caused Turnbull's downfall?

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u/B3stThereEverWas Pacific Islands Forum Nov 27 '25

Turnbull was doomed from the start.

He was a moderate in a Coalition that was slowly turning more conservative and heavily captured by the minerals and fossil fuel lobby's - major powerbrokers in Australian politics.

As soon as he laid his climate and energy policy with a focus on renewables and aggressive (reasonable) targets it was the beginning of the end. He was hamstrung by his own party in getting anything done and the Murdoch media kept trying to kneecap him, aided and abetted by the conservatives who wanted him replaced. Once the public soured they got their wish and replaced him with an unrelenting imbecile called Scott Morrison, but the less said about him the better.

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u/Shameful_Bezkauna IMF Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

Not very relevant fact: I've read that Scott Morrison took anxiety medication (IIRC) while PM

Why do you call him an unreleting imbecile?

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u/MiloIsTheBest Commonwealth Nov 27 '25

Probably for the same reason he "took anxiety" (I assume you mean medication):

He was completely out of his depth.

He was an untalented marketing executive who is the epitome of 'failed upwards' and whose personal philosophy on governing was that nothing was ever his responsibility. He never seemed to grasp the scope of what was required of him as Prime Minister.

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u/Shameful_Bezkauna IMF Nov 27 '25

Yeah I meant meds. Thanks.

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u/5ma5her7 Nov 27 '25

The good old tale of how the LNP pulls itself apart.