Dr. Andrew Leigh MP is correct to assert that all eligible Australians should enrol to vote by 8 pm today. In particular, our youth who will pay a big price for the poor policies of Australian Governments. Australia's youth are ideally placed to make a positive and significant difference in electing high quality candidates who have the track record and the capacity to deliver improved social, economic, environmental and political outcomes at local, state and national level.

The challenge confronting Australian Macedonian youth is that both the ALP and the LNP have identical, heavily biased and unsustainable policies towards Macedonia. Both parties have shown a lack of political leadership to give bipartisan support for recognition of the Republic of Macedonia under its legitimate constitutional name as has been done by over 136 nations at the UN. The good news is that many of these Macedonians live in marginal electorates and they can use social media to generate support from the wider community for foreing policy change.

Cheap propaganda!

Young people should especially be careful what they are wishing for.
Are you sure what else that electoral role is going to be used for? conscription, perhaps?
Are you aware that it is already being used for jury duty?
Are you aware that it brings junk-mail to your letter-box?

Does it worth the trouble?

Certainly not if you happen to live in a 'safe-seat' anyway OR if you don't happen to have any significant political views.

You can always tell your grandchildren that on 7 September 2013 you were not a sucker!

And Perhaps, just perhaps, by being ignored, politicians like Andrew Leigh will come down a bit closer to estimating their true worth and value to society.

Yuyutsu,

I think that you are right about politicians not wanting the extent of disillusionment with them and the major parties to be known. The game was given away in the 1990s by the jailing of Albert Langer. He had advocated putting the major parties equal last. At that time, such a vote was valid down to the duplicated or missing number, but it was illegal to advocate voting in this way. Langer was jailed for contempt of court when he refused to give up his campaign, and Amnesty International took up his case as Australia's only prisoner of conscience. They let Langer out of jail. but changed the law to make such votes invalid. More here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Langer