Page Text: Voting issues: Environment
TND: Why are you an undecided voter?
“The government that we’ve got in now – I don’t want our country to continue in the same vein that it’s in now. I want them to change their direction, to be a little bit more aware of the people and the country itself. I just don’t feel like they attach enough importance to the people, I think they’ve forgotten. Whereas Labor, I want to maybe give them a go because I think I should, but by the same token, I get concerned that maybe they won’t do the right thing.
“But they can’t do too much worse, can they?”
Daryl Hodson
Electorate: Bendigo (VIC)
Voting history: Swing voter
Voting issues: Cost of living, younger generations, social and economic infrastructure particularly in regional areas, climate
TND: Why are you an undecided voter?
“I’ve probably always been an undecided voter. I’ve never been what you could call a rusted-on affiliate of any party, but I’m finding this election a little bit – I’m still not sure what I’ll do. It’s just very hard to filter the media and sort of get what’s going on.
“But the biggest issue I’m finding is we’re not getting any real concrete ideas or policy from either leader. It seems to be a focus on the personality of the leader, not on any real concrete ideas of where we’re heading.
“We need taxation. What’s going to happen with healthcare? What’s going to happen with education? These are things that we need really strong investments in … And it worries me when people like Peter Dutton are talking up a war with China. We need to step back and take stock here of what the situation is. How do we define our relationship with China in the future? In the same respect, I’m not quite sure what the Labor Party’s view on all that is. Say they’re elected, would they try and open a constructive dialogue with the Chinese government?”
David Watkins