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12 Aug 05:48am

Filed under: Election 2010, Families, Young People, Youth Vote

To the 100,00-odd, predominately young voters, who courtesy of Get-Up, will be making their first quivering steps towards the polling booth in a couple of weeks - let me apologise on behalf of the two major parties.

Downtrodden: without 2.1 kids, a Commodore and a labrador, forget about it.

They’re just not that into you.

For both Labor and the Coalition, the love is gone for younger voters. In fact, the two major parties seem to have forgotten these voters whose sway at the ballot box last time around was lauded as having helped unseat a decades-old reigning political force in their mad scramble for the “family” vote.

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Working family man says:

11:22am | 14/08/10

Working families are creating future tax payers. The childless need to be taxed higher to offset the fact they simply consume resources and die. If Children are like trees then the childless are like compost. Read more »
BT says:

04:21pm | 13/08/10

@Anne71 she doesn’t work at all - that’s why she had time to come into the office! The people at the highest end of the tax scheme pay only 1% tax while the suckers at the lower end of the spectrum pay vast amounts more than that - how is… Read more »

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