Abbie Chatfield has made a bold prediction about Australia’s political future as voters prepare to head to the polls for Saturday’s general election.
The outspoken Green Party-voting TV and radio presenter expects the Australian mainstream to shift further to the left over the next 15 years as older Liberal voters die out.
In her Instagram Stories, after interviewing Green Party leader Adam Bandt for Hit Network on Thursday, Abbie noted that there are few younger Liberal voters these days.
The end of the Liberal Party? Abbie Chatfield has made a bold prediction about Australia’s political future as voters prepare to head to the polls for Saturday’s general election
And the 26-year-old said young people intending to vote for Scott Morrison must lack empathy or education.
“I think or really hope that in the next 10 or 15 years, when people who vote for the Liberal Party literally die out and also metaphorically die out the way they think, I really think that at some point our two-party system will become the be green [on] The Left and then Labor will be more like how we see the Liberals now,” she surmised.
She added: “I just feel like there are so few young and educated people who vote liberally.
“If you’re voting Liberals and you’re my age, something is really wrong. Either you are uneducated or you lack empathy.
“And oddly, have more empathy for billionaires and big corporations than for people and the planet.”
Open: The Green Party-voting TV and radio presenter expects the Australian mainstream to shift further to the left over the next 15 years as older Liberal voters die out
Abbie went on to say that she predicts – or hopes – that the Liberal Party will simply “die out” as its supporters grow older and die out themselves.
‘[Then] it’s going to be about Labor and the Greens and eventually it’s going to get more and more forward [to the left].’
Coalition and opposition are leaving nothing to chance on the last day of the general election campaign as a new poll shows Labor could win government.
Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese will start Friday on opposite sides of the country in a final shot to win voters ahead of Saturday’s election.
The opposition leader will start the day from Sydney ahead of a tri-state blitz for marginal coalition-held seats.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister will begin day 40 of the election campaign from the West in a final blitz of seats in Perth
A new opinion poll shows the race has tightened over the past week, with the Coalition higher, confirming the trend seen across other voting trackers over the past few days.
According to the Ipsos poll, published in The Australian Financial Review on Friday, Labor has a slim margin of 36-35 per cent over the government.
Based on bipartisan preference, Labor leads 53-47 percent after allocating preferences based on the last election in 2019.
Mr Albanese is pursuing 42 per cent of Prime Minister Ipsos’ preferred measure, versus 39 per cent for Mr Morrison.
But Labor is leaving nothing to chance, going so far as to project its campaign messages onto prominent buildings in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth on Thursday night.
Albanese says Labor will be fiscally responsible if it wins government after the opposition announced on Thursday it would spend an additional $7.4 billion over the next four years.
“That pales in comparison to the extraordinary waste we’ve seen from this administration,” he said.
“You’re going to see a return on things like our clean energy policy very quickly.”
The opposition leader said there would be savings in the budget outcome following a Treasury Department scrutiny of “waste and clutter” under the Morrison government.
In the meantime, the prime minister will use the last day of the election campaign to review the government’s economic record.
This comes as unemployment fell to 3.9 percent, the lowest since August 1974.
Mr Morrison said the low unemployment rate was a sign the Government’s economic plan was working.
“Will we have a Labor party and a Labor leader who doesn’t know the economy and is a completely loose entity, or will it be a government that understands how the economy works,” Morrison said on Thursday.
More than seven million people either voted ahead of schedule or applied to vote by post ahead of the May 21 election.