Comments on: Only 12 per cent of young Australians didn’t vote in postal survey

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:26:15 +0000

In reply to Greg. We've all been there Greg! I once failed to claim about a hundred bucks in wages for a days work when I was a fairly broke student because I kept putting it off. So if that's not incentive then a postal ballot may evade even some well intentioned but fairly disorganised folks. There is no reason they could not have included online responses to the survey other than to make life tougher for those who never use snail mail. If you want to stack things against the elderly you only use on-line options, if you want to stack them against millenniels then deny them an on-line option, as Finance Minister Corrman (a No voter) has done in this case.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 06:32:00 +0000

Young people are just put simply lazy slobs and bums, who would not know a hard days work in their life and will not simply go and vote on a piece of paper and walk to the mailbox! That’s the problem people!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 04:26:21 +0000

The ABS will presumably be well placed to offer some breakdown of the participation in the survey after the result is released in a couple of weeks. I will be truly astonished if the Galaxy poll result is found to be true. A lot of 25-34 year olds travel, rent, share housing and have all sorts of challenges getting mail or staying enrolled.

If it’s true that 88 per cent have voted then that is huge and great for SSM. If it’s significantly lower then that’s the reason that the No vote will have a narrow (and therefore meaningless) win.