WHO CARES ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN

The Australian 2016 Election Campaign has been too long and tedious. I have stopped listening and barely glance at the headlines and I have to wonder how many of my fellow Australians have a done the same. Almost every young person I know have certainly has.

The entire campaign seems to be littered with platitudes, policy pronouncements and promises, most the which will not be met. The media is hardly helping and in my view is adding to the lopsided reporting and misinformation. Facts and objectivity have gone out the window to be replaced by sound bites, selective filtering and sometimes downright misleading reporting and just journalist opinions and polls.

So politicians seeking to differentiate voters focus on minorities. Minority community and voting groups are paid a disproportionate amount of attention and promised funding.

All sides of politics pretend that money grows on trees, and that despite their promises that their projects are all funded, the truth is that few promises have ever turned out to be properly funded, a finer point that the media seem to have turned a blind eye to.

So we all know intrinsically know that a significant proportion of voters have already made their minds up. Many are traditional another’s how will vote for one party or another, regardless of what happens in parliament or in the campaign trail. An increasingly higher number of voters are highly skeptical of the political process and are resigned to the fact that few things are going to change and that we will, whoever ends up running the Government, it will be just subjected to more of the same toxic political environment.