Facts of life are conservative, but younger voters are lurching left
The problem for the Liberal party is that, since the end of the Howard-Costello era, it has done very little to address the structural causes for the discontent of young Australians.
Margaret Thatcher said the facts of life are Conservative. Even Labor icons Bob Hawke and Paul Keating agreed with the Iron Lady in the 1980s when they deregulated the Australian economy and paved the way for the biggest national income boom since the Gold Rushes.
Yet there is a growing gap between those views and how a young person votes today. Younger Australians are becoming highly resistant to supporting not just the market economy but the politics of the centre-right.
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Tom Switzer is executive director at the Centre for Independent Studies and is an outgoing presenter on ABC Radio National.
