I have just written a message to Anthony Albanese about the hasty proposal to continue with the offshore detention of refugees. This is - and always has been - a cruel and inhumane policy. Our governments must stop being deliberately cruel to vulnerable people.
Roslyn
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Language nerd, blogger, cynic and retired teacher. I live on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Trying my best to do no harm.
It really annoys me how the Liberal Party keeps saying that "there was a perception of...", so therefore all they need to do is change the "perception" and people will love them again. What a load of self-serving drivel. There is a reality that the Liberal Party is misogynistic, old, conservative and climate change denialist in its policies and public statements. Until they accept that their beliefs and policies are contemptuous of female humans and of future human existence on this planet, they will not win female or young voters.
Doctor Ryan of Kooyong has raised the possibility of 16- and 17-year-olds gaining the right to vote. I support this initiative wholeheartedly.
As a retired teacher, I watched young people suffering through VCE with its non-stop assessment and heartless ranking system. They were trying bravely to plan their futures in a society where housing is scarce, job-seeking complex, and further study expensive.
Those young people should be able to shape our government from an earlier age. They might then have more say in protecting the environment for their own futures and for their children.
It's progressive, democratic and just.
https://twitter.com/Mon4Kooyong/status/1595504960309006338?s=20&t=mub1tYioAmXh9qgpPKRJkg
Dr Monique Ryan MP on Twitter
“The young people of Kooyong have told me that they’d like us to lower the voting age. It’s their future; they’d like to help determine it. I’ll be working with the Greens and holding community consultation events early next year, and hope to deliver this change for Kooyong.”
My daughter is in Darwin and has just voted in the Victorian election. I give the AEC credit for making the voting experience so rational and manageable in our country. That would hardly be a straightforward process in the USA, for example.
I'm so pleased to discover many of the people I follow on Twitter here on Mastodon. It already feels homely, informative and sparky. It's as though I've landed in a Victorian country town that offers a friendly café, a secondhand bookshop and scintillating conversations on street corners.