Latest Poll only 65yrs+ prefer LNP.....

[fourandsixpants]

http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2014/08/labors-lead-narrows-or-not/

....only among those aged 65+ still clearly favour the L-NP (54.5%) cf. ALP (45.5%)

Silly old bug gers

 women:   ALP 58%      well ahead of the L-NP 42% on a two-party preferred basis

men:         ALP 53%     cf. L-NP 47%

 ALP with its strongest advantage with YOUTH:

18-24yrs:      ALP 64%      cf. L-NP (36%)

25-34yrs:      ALP 64.5%    cf. L-NP (35.5%)

35-49yrs:      ALP 60.5%    cf. L-NP (39.5%)

50-64yrs:      ALP 50.5%     cf. L-NP (49.5%)

[tall_bearded01]

“not to push boundaries.”

Is this not generation which brought you Joplin, Hendrix, Greere, Charlie Perkins, the anti-war movement, Green Peace, the ban the bomb movement. Is this not the generation which did the ground breaking work to get rid racial of discrimination and get equal rights for women. The list is pretty much endless.

So in comparison what have Gen Y’s or what they call themselves now done when it comes to ground breaking movements which have effected real social change. Ah yes, a decaf latte over breakfast at the local cafe, where we can debate what’s currently topical in the news before going to work.

As for “Got plenty of assets and SMSF (self-managed superannuation fund) and investments like more than 1 property....and at present under tax rules can own up to about 6 million in assets before tax man hits them. So I guess these folk would be very happy with present arrangement and therefore VERY HAPPY WITH PRESENT GOVT for these $$$ reasons.....”

They are the 100 percenters.

When they stated off, if they wanted a university education their parent paid for it they paid for it. If you had to go to the doctor, you paid for it. When he bought your first house was bare essentials only; carpets could wait until you could afford then, as well as the TV and pretty much everything else in the way of furniture. Interest rates were regulated at twelve and a half percent, but you had to wait 5 years to get a loan and then even only after you got a bridging loan first. 

No Family Benefits A or B, no subsidised child care or after school car, no baby bonus, Medicare, no employer contibutions to super,  in fact the only thing they did get was pittance in chid endowment. Again the list is endless.

[fourandsixpants]

hey tallbearded.....you forgot to mention this age group had no access to CREDIT CARDS !!

......wha?!!......no 'plastic'???

Different mentality regards operational economics.....which has become insidiously infectious and widespread thoughout the globe from the family unit through to governments.

[the_great_she_elephant · Accepted solution]

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Unfortunately it has always been so.  When those young people grow old, they will be voting differently.  They do not grow wiser, they become lazy.  The old people who I meet are hugely apathetic about politics, so they vote in order to be comfortable, not to push boundaries.

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Just as well I have a sense of humour Polks - do you expect to vote differently once you are "old"? Many of us have not only grown wiser, we have also grown a trifle cynical. We have seen it all too many times before - the same people making the same mistakes and breaking the same promises, on both sides of politics .It's like the pendulum on a perpetual motion machine and through it all people are born, grow up,marry, beget children and die in exactly the same way they always have. The country survives, despite the politicians and the population grits its teeth and gets on with the business of living.

[freddie*rooster]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

I am of the age that when my B'Day's come around I actually forget how old I am:)

Just to satisfy some posters' curiosity I am much younger than I look

And I certainly did not vote for LNP.

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I'm much older than I act and my next B'Day won't see me voting LNP no way am I joining the Tone team with Chrissy cheerleader.

[tall_bearded01]

I vote LNP and will probably continue to do so in the future. But I haven’t voted LNP for the last three (or is it four) elections. I voted informal the year Howard got the boot. I voted informal when Abbott was the opposition leader. I voted informal when he won the last election, and I will vote informal if he still leads the party at the next election.

That is support for the LNP doesn’t necessarly translate into support for Abbott and Co. Far from it

[fourandsixpants]

Stick to your guns I always say.....shame we had them ripped out of our hands awhile back.....by the LNP mob too LOL

[fourandsixpants · Accepted solution]

to she-el

ref........ The country survives, despite the politicians and the population grits its teeth and gets on with the business of living.

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sorry she-el.....but I want my kids to have the opportunity to THRIVE not just survive this is not the 1930's!!!!

...and Australia should be THRIVING also. But these wretched corrupt political parties and many of these corrupt politicians keep getting 'in' via questionable polling votes IMO.

The whole system reeks of corruption IMO.

.....as for getting on with the business of living - tis very hard to do when interference from these idiots is hard to ignore and IMO would be dangerous to ignore.

[polksaladallie]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@polksaladallie wrote:

Unfortunately it has always been so.  When those young people grow old, they will be voting differently.  They do not grow wiser, they become lazy.  The old people who I meet are hugely apathetic about politics, so they vote in order to be comfortable, not to push boundaries.

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Just as well I have a sense of humour Polks - do you expect to vote differently once you are "old"?

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I am older than you, and I vote differently from when I was 21.  Because I am old, I have seen changes in people, and they do grow more conservative.  I did not, I went the other way a long time ago, when I saw very personally how conservative governments and authorities treated vulnerable people.  As I said, most old people who I have contact with do not care.

[boris1gary]

and some of my much much older friends are as red (politically speaking) as they were some 50+ years ago. 

[polksaladallie]

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@boris1gary wrote:

and some of my much much older friends are as red (politically speaking) as they were some 50+ years ago. 

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Good, but I am in Queensland, and we are backward here.