Polling shows Liberals face a dire task to woo young voters

Even at its zenith, the Liberal Party was never hugely popular with younger voters. But the deficit was always cancelled out by its appeal to superannuants, pensioners and the rest of the asset class, enabling the contest to boil down to a fight for the mums, dads and tradies.

All of a sudden, the younger voters are starting to outnumber the older voters, and they are less inclined than their forebears to vote conservatively, even for Labor. Loading...