How Australia’s First-Time Voters Feel About the 2025 Election
“Worried.” “Unfair.” “Frustrating.” Ten young voters have their say.
Photographs: Bloomberg (11), Getty Images (1)
Australians will vote in a May 3 ballot in which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is campaigning to become the nation’s first leader in more than two decades to win back-to-back elections.
But Albanese must first overcome a rising tide of disillusion in the electorate after three years of resurgent inflation and high interest rates that, combined with a housing shortage that sent rents soaring, triggered a cost-of-living crisis in the nation.