Well, I certainly believe that there is room for a new opposition party, if only the Greens or other can get it together sufficiently to actualise strong representation of some of the nobler aspirations of the majority of the burdened, overworked, over stressed and underpaid (in terms of what your $AU really gets you) average working class Ozzie.

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Clearly, in my mind at least, neither of the 2 major parties truly represent the interests of the majority.

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This is evidenced most clearly by 2 things:

1. No $money$, no Justice, most of the time.

2. No $money$, no top shelf medical service, most of the time.

And yet, these two professions, are no more than vested minority interests.

Clearly, to legally enshrine full and equal access to the law and full and equal access to health services is in the majority of peoples interest.

Likewise the issue of the banks, where the poorest are penalised and made to buy the equivalent of two houses for the bank after they have finished paying for their own crappy over priced one.

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So seriously, remember, roll back the clock to WWII and turn back those boats Tony, just like the tin pot law of the transplanted genocidal pom turned back the boat loads of Jews.

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It appears to me that the liberal party and their supporters, then as now, simply do not care to know:

" ... the troubles of others are not our concern. ... "

I don't think the greens would be too happy becoming the next opposition.

After all, they are the de facto government now, telling the little lady what to do. Becoming the opposition would be a big step back for them.

"In my opinion there shouldn't be a youth vote. Young adult vote yes. I believe that the voting age should be put back to 21 as should be the age of going to war. Today's youths are far more educated than the baby boomers but also far less wise."

Interesting perception, individual. I'm hardly impartial, still being in my twenties, but my experience has been quite different. As a teacher, I work with a lot of baby boomers. It seems that, until recently, nobody wanted to be a teacher - when I started out in the job, the average age of a teacher in QLD was somewhere in the mid-high fifties.

Of my colleagues, it's the baby boomers who proudly proclaim that they have never voted for anyone other than Labor because "Labor looks after the working man". When quizzed on the Labor policies that look after the working man in the 21st century, they are rarely able to provide answers. I think, sometimes, that they have also missed the point when teachers ceased to be considered "working men/women".

It was also the baby boomers who were most vocal during our recent round of enterprise bargaining, who blindly followed the union directives to strike and then praised the union for an excellent outcome - one that represented no improvement on the government's initial offer and actually cost us money when we take into account the unpaid day of striking and the backpay we didn't get because the arguing was so drawn out.

I have a lot of respect for these guys - they have taught me all I know and continue to serve as role models as I develop my skills as a teacher and as an adult. I don't know that they're any wiser in a political sense, though. I put more thought into policies and governance when I was a teenager than many of my older colleagues do as they approach retirement.

VERY well said Otokonoko, I quite agree.
In this political age, subsequent generations are becoming better informed and nurtured more into a world of independent investigative research, thanks to the internet.

If anything newer generations may be a lot more wise in many ways.

King Hazza,

<<in this political age, subsequent generations are becoming better informed and nurtured more into a world of independent investigative research, thanks to the internet.>>

That is a key problem. You perceive access to the internet as a medium for the increase of “better informed and nurtured” (whatever that is supposed to mean).In reality it means that today’s generations have better access to information. Sadly, your generation sees access to information as in some way synonymous with, knowledge, intelligence or common sense. Sorry to disappoint you but all the evidence points to the exact opposite.

We have the last three generations who can’t make any sense whatsoever out of the world in which they live. That is the damage done to people like you by “information”. You remind me of the movie where the question was asked for the truth, to which the response was “the truth, you can’t handle the truth”.

The internet has destroyed your ability to rationalize, analyze, assimilate, comprehend, rationalize or create knowledge. You are a victim of information and not a beneficiary.

The modern world is full of information freaks thinking they have the answers when they don’t even understand the questions.

I FEEL THE GREENS ARE SPOILERS AND PROBABLY COMPARE MORE TO PARTIES BASED ON RELIGION RATHER THAN ANY POLITICAL LEANING. POLITICAL POWER FOR THE GREENS IS A LITTLE LIKE PUTTING A FANATIC BEHIND THE CONTROLS. GREENS ARE NOT ALL TREE HUGGERS!!