Renters hold the key to low voter turn-out at federal elections
- Written by Nick Economou, Senior Lecturer, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
In the weeks after the 2019 federal election, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the turn-out of voters was the lowest since the introduction of compulsory voting in 1925.
It also reported there had been high rates of absenteeism of young voters who, while willing to participate in the recent marriage equality survey, had “turned their...