Greens Leader Adam Bandt woos young voters with debut DJ gig hosted by Abbie Chatfield

The Greens Leader has wooed young voters with a sold out debut DJ performance, after the Melbourne MP joked “there’ll be train wrecks”.

Greens Leader Adam Bandt has attempted to woo young voters with a sold out debut DJ performance alongside influencer Abbie Chatfield.

Mr Bandt hit the decks in front of about 500 attendees at Fitzroy’s beloved The Night Cat on Sunday afternoon.

Video from the performance showed the Greens leader in a white T-shirt and cap with a set of earphones over his neck as punters danced in front of him.

Speaking to NewsWire ahead of the event, appropriately dubbed VOTE, Mr Bandt flagged pop hits from Charlie XCX and Billie Eilish plus “a couple of things I like to play on my own at home”.

“DJing at home is my stress relief. I’ve played at some friend’s parties before but this will be my public debut. I’m sure there’ll be train wrecks but expect a bit of fun along the way,” he said.

The former industrial lawyer has previously spoken about his love of German house music.

Chatfield, who recently interviewed Mr Bandt on her podcast It’s A Lot, has also leant her star power to the event, which sold out in under 24 hours.

“We wanted a fun and accessible way of talking with young people about politics,” said Mr Bandt.

“The rental crisis, climate crisis, and cost of living crisis, are all political. They’re all impacting young people but a lot of people feel disconnected from politics, and I feel like politics isn’t necessarily addressing the issues that they care about.”

Australian Greens leader Adam Bandt and Abbie Chatfield during the MP’s DJ set.Picture: NewsWire/Nadir Kinani.

Greens Leader will make his pitch to young voters alongside with his public DJ debut. Picture: NewsWire/ Martin Ollman

This year’s federal election will the be first where Gen Z and millennial voters will outnumber their Baby Boomer peers, about 7.7 million to 5.8m million, according to Australian Electoral Commission data.

Mr Bandt says the cohort will have an “incredibly powerful vote at this election”.

“They could (change) the outcome in a number of seats around the country,” he said.

“We’re facing some big challenges in this country that are really impacting on young people - rising house prices, rental stress, supermarket prices and the climate crisis, young have an amazing opportunity this election to keep Peter Dutton out and get the next government to act on those big issues.”

Adam Bandt and Abbie Chatfield.Picture: NewsWire/Nadir Kinani.

For punters who weren’t able to secure a ticket to the event, Mr Bandt didn’t rule out an unofficial after party at Melbourne institution Revolver Upstairs, or Revs’ as it’s known to locals.

“Who knows, there may be kick ons afterwards,” he says, laughing.

“We’ll have to see how it goes.”

The Greens will aim to boost their current four-seat hold in the House of Representatives ahead of this year’s federal election, due by May 17.

To date, their policy platform includes funding Medicare to include dental, wide-ranging tax reform like a 40 per cent excessive profits tax, and calls to lower the age eligibility for JobSeeker from 22 to 18, and eliminate the parental income test for Youth Allowance payments.

Originally published as Greens Leader Adam Bandt woos young voters with debut DJ gig hosted by Abbie Chatfield