As a Year 11 student, I’m politically engaged, as are so many young people. But a lot have given up on politicians
As the Australian parliament returns this week with a new prime minister, the first item on the agenda seems to be scrapping the national energy guarantee (Neg), the policy that both sides of government, the chief scientist and countless lobbyists and bureaucrats had agreed to in principle.
In the eyes of Gen Z and Millennials, government in modern Australia has become less about solutions, compromise and consultation and more about underhand motives and Machiavellian instincts. Plenty of us are engaged in the issues but it’s hard to place trust in politicians who show us time and again that short-term plays constantly beat out long-term concerns of the nation and the planet.
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