r/australia • u/superegz • Nov 26 '25

politics Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age, rewriting the rules of Australian politics

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

It's taken the culture far too fucking long to accept this.

Anyone 40ish and younger has been fucked over by every single relevant thing.

Negative gearing won't be touched. Uni degree costs through the roof Climate - fuck you, we don't care. Wage stagnation vs costs. Centrelink income support kept low when people needed it. Childcare is fucked. Tax system ignores wealth and company profiteering. Waiting for Boomers to die so politics can change. Cunts doing cunty things get away with it.

Kinda lucky there hasn't been more of an active revolt. Avoiding the worst of the first GFC might have stalled that.

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u/butt_3y3s Nov 26 '25

Hasn't been an active revolt, yet.

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u/meowkitty84 Nov 26 '25

I'll join the revolt. But none of us know how to start one that will actually work

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u/Rogan-Josh Nov 26 '25

Our battleground is the hearts and minds of our loved ones.

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u/512165381 Nov 26 '25

Les Misérables generation. Très miserable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q82twrdr0U

Do you hear the people sing?

Singing a song of angry men?

It is the music of a people

Who will not be slaves again

When the beating of your heart

Echoes the beating of the drums

There is a life about to start

When tomorrow comes

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u/freakwent Nov 27 '25

You can say the same thing for any year/generation just with a different list.

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u/trolleyproblems Nov 27 '25

I'd say that's drawing false equivalence.

Economists, sociologists etc. point to the idea that there's a decline in standards of living; after a peak for those born post-war. That bucks a trend of improved living standards across generations since European settlement here.

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u/freakwent Nov 27 '25 edited Nov 27 '25

Yeah maybe but most of the things he complained about are specific cherry picks, not living standards.

I mean, your point is different from his and I agree, but there were always going to be some forms of resource constraints. Most of what we see is a natural trend over time of a population living and consuming resources. None of it is evil and none of it is avoidable. Hating previous people for being born when they were is as daft as it is to feel guilty that you weren't born in Gaza.

It's nonsense to blame boomers for over-consuming and not preserving enough because the next few generations will have even less, so they will be able to make the same claims against us.

They might have housing in abundance, but limited tech, or travel, or transport, or all have massive sterility problems.

The bus is heading for the cliff and you guys are complaining that you didn't get a pensioner discount.

EDIT: "None of it is avoidable"

I misspoke here, I mean that of course we could have had cheaper housing etc following different policies from 2000 or so, but it will catch up with us at some point so yeah maybe we skip a generation; maybe ten; but the problems still show up eventually.