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Question 1: Getting a job in itself can be hard. Now-a-days one must have heaps of qualifications to get into the positions. Even then, once you finish a course, there'll be like thousands of others trying to get the same spot, making it even harder.

Question 2: I believe that even 1 vote can make change. As shown in some campaigns, sometimes it comes close to only like 50 votes. So the 60,000 young people voting would easily be a big portion and change voting.

Question 3: Young people can make change, and are slowly gaining voice themselves (or through youth work). As for true democracy, it's hard to say. It would be great to say yes, but it only truly works everybody has a say

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Question 1:

Obtaining work with a good salary can be quite difficult, and even having a job that pays well still does not guarantee that young people will be able to afford to buy a home, especially due to the rising cost of housing.

Question 2:

The same sex marriage vote concluding positively, will allow young people to feel empowered and see that their voice is being heard. This may influence young people to vote for other causes as they feel like they have a voice in their society, a voice that is now being heard.

Question 3:

Young people ad up to a high percentage of the population, if majority of young people begin to vote their votes can really pave the way for change.

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(can you please clarify the online tasks please. its confusing and i'm kind of unsure if i'm answering the right question)

Former Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey has advised Australians wanting to buy their first home to "get a good job that pays good money".Opposition Leader Bill Shorten immediately decried Mr Hockey's comment as "insulting" and reminiscent of his "poor people don't drive cars" remark.

unfortunately getting a job is really hard and at many time when young people do get a job, they are connected to the people they get the job from. this comments from Joe hockey are very poor, the cost of housing is on a rise making it even more difficult

Australia has 65,000 new young voters so what does this mean for elections?

clearly this shows that young people do care about what is happening in their communities/ country.

Can young people change things by voting?

yes they definitely can, that doesn't mean the age of when a young person should vote should change. the more experience the more understanding. simple.

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Former Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey has advised Australians wanting to buy their first home to "get a good job that pays good money". Opposition Leader Bill Shorten immediately decried Mr Hockey's comment as "insulting" and reminiscent of his "poor people don't drive cars" remark.What do you think of that?

Getting a good paying job is difficult in itself and not even guaranteed you will be able to purchase a home even if your job pays good. Agree with Bill Shorten. I don’t really know.

There are now 65,000 more young people on the voting roll after Same Sex Marriage - what difference if any will it make?
Young people are clearly more involved, it will show that they obviously have things they care about and are passionate about (wow! who knew!!) and can make a difference. Hopefully people will take young people’s voice seriously, seeing that they have influence.

Can young people change things by voting? Do we have a real democracy?
Young people can for sure make a difference, getting involved is a step in the right direction.

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Former Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey has advised Australians wanting to buy their first home to "get a good job that pays good money".Opposition Leader Bill Shorten immediately decried Mr Hockey's comment as "insulting" and reminiscent of his "poor people don't drive cars" remark.

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Former Liberal Treasurer Joe Hockey has advised Australians wanting to buy their first home to "get a good job that pays good money".Opposition Leader Bill Shorten immediately decried Mr Hockey's comment as "insulting" and reminiscent of his "poor people don't drive cars" remark.

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The market has continued its strong run into 2015, with prices up 3 per cent in March alone.

The Treasurer on Tuesday agreed Sydney is an expensive city to live in but denied that housing in Sydney had become unaffordable, particularly for new entrants into the property market.

"No. Look, if housing were unaffordable in Sydney, no one would be buying it," he said.

"People are purchasing housing in Sydney. It's expensive, as a multiple of average weekly earnings it is expensive, it's an expensive city to live in," he said.

"But, having said that, you know a lot of people would much rather have their homes go up in value than fall in value," he said.

The Treasurer said rising house prices were a good thing because they enabled owners to borrow against the equity to fund new spending.

When pressed about the barriers for new entrants to the market, Mr Hockey said the solution was clear.

"The starting point for a first home buyer is to get a good job that pays good money. If you've got a good job and it pays good money and you have security in relation to that job, then you can go to the bank and you can borrow money and that's readily affordable," he said.

If you've got a good job and it pays good money and you have security in relation to that job, then you can go to the bank and you can borrow money and that's readily affordable.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the comments could not be dismissed as another "gaffe" but proof the Treasurer is out of touch.

"As if Joe Hockey hasn't insulted families enough, he's at it once more," he said.

"This is 'poor people don't drive cars' all over again. This isn't just another Joe Hockey gaffe - this is proof he just doesn't get the pressure families are facing," he said.

"What planet is Joe Hockey living on?" he said.

The Greens are proposing abolishing negative gearing for future investment properties, which the independent Parliamentary Budget Office has estimated would save the budget $42 billion over the decade.

Mr Hockey said such a move would see rents increase while Labor has sounded caution about the idea, warning it could hurt "mum and dad" investors, and not just the big end of town. The Treasurer said increasing supply was the key to resolving housing affordability as it was a basic "supply and demand" issue. Building approvals are set to reach 200,000 in 2015 - the highest on record.

On the weekend, Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Saul Eslake warned rising house prices are causing "social harm".

He said it was fuelling an increase in the gap between those who own property and those attempting to enter the market and said unlike in the last housing boom, was no longer seeing owners borrow against their equity.

The government has directly contradicted the Treasury secretary John Fraser and the Reserve Bank who have described the rising house prices as a property bubble. Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said on the weekend "there is no property bubble".

In question time last week Prime Minister Tony Abbott responded to a question raising concerns about a housing bubble, saying he welcomed rising house prices in Sydney.

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Joe Hockey's advice to first homebuyers - get a good job that pays good money

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The market has continued its strong run into 2015, with prices up 3 per cent in March alone. The Treasurer on Tuesday agreed Sydney is an expensive city to live in but denied that housing in Sydney had become unaffordable, particularly for new entrants into the property market. "No.

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There are now 65,000 more young people on the voting roll after Same Sex Marriage - what difference if any will it make?

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There are now 65,000 more young people on the voting roll after Same Sex Marriage - what difference if any will it make?

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Updated November 28, 2017 20:04:14

The same-sex marriage results have been signed, sealed and delivered, but now the Q&A audience is asking: How will young people influence future elections now that 65,000 more of them are enrolled to vote? And should politicians in Western Sydney vote with their "no" constituents or with the majority of Australians who voted yes.

Q&A's panel on Monday night included Malcolm Turnbull's assistant minister Senator James McGrath, Indigenous leader Warren Mundine, editor of Guardian Australia Lenore Taylor, Labor senator for Queensland Murray Watt and co-host of SBS's The Feed Jan Fran.

Almost 100,000 people joined the electoral role in the lead-up to the same sex-marriage survey and 65,000 of those new voters were aged between 18 and 24.

One audience member wanted to know what that meant for future elections.

Senator Watt said come election time, the choice would be clear for young people because the Government was coming after them, and not for their votes.

"If you're in work they're cutting penalty rates. If you're a university student they're cutting university funding and putting fees up. This Government is coming after you," he said.

Mr McGrath said focusing on the economy and employment was the Government's strong point and would appeal to young people.

"We have to make sure in terms of young people we don't patronise them by saying you're a young person and let's speak specifically about young person issues," he said.

"We need to focus on employment. What are we doing for the economy in terms of cutting taxes so they get more money in their back pocket? What are we doing about cutting taxes for businesses so they employ more people? That's what the Government is doing."

Host Tony Jones queried what millennials saw in "old, white male socialists" like Britain's Jeremy Corbyn and 2016 US presidential election candidate Bernie Sanders as leaders.

They speak to the uncertainty faced by young people across many facets of their lives, Fran said.

"They can't afford housing. They are saddled with university debt. They are kind of saddled with debt in general. They are facing the prospect of a very fractured job market," she said.

Should Western Sydney MPs vote no on SSM?

The Feed's Fran, who grew up in Blaxland in Western Sydney, which had Australia's highest concentration of no voters in the same-sex marriage survey, was asked if she thought MPs should vote with their constituents or with the majority of the Australians who said yes.

"I tend to believe, I feel like politicians have two jobs. The main one is to represent their electorate and the other one is to think about the future of Australia and the role they play in the future of Australia as a country, right?" she said.

"And I wouldn't begrudge [Member for Blaxland] Jason Clare if he decided to vote the way of his electorate and I wouldn't begrudge him if he decided to say 'no, I will vote yes because I feel it's a matter of national importance'."

Fran said she did not know a single gay person growing up in Western Sydney and there was never a word in colloquial conversation among her family for gay people, so the language used would often translate to "those other types" or "something similar to sexual deviance".

"I think visibility is really important. And I think having gay ... Arabic-speaking people being really visible is important. They are the people that young gay Arab-speaking people in Blaxland will look at and say they're normal. Of course they're normal."

McGrath coins #AxisOfLeftists

On the topic of whether the Liberals and Nationals would work more effectively as two separate parties after Labor's likely election victory in Queensland, Mr McGrath complained the conservatives were up against an "axis of leftists" - the Labor Party, Greens, the Australian union movement and activist group GetUp.

"We can win elections against just Labor, but when we're up against essentially four other parties who are very well resourced, more money than my party in Queensland, it makes it very hard to win elections," he said.

"I'm always surprised as a conservative in Queensland not that we lose elections, I'm surprised that we occasionally win an election considering this armageddon of leftists that come towards us."

Fran intervened with "Hashtag axis of leftists."

And so that is what it became.

Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, nationals, liberal-national-party-queensland, australia

First posted November 28, 2017 01:33:10

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Updated November 28, 2017 20:04:14 The same-sex marriage results have been signed, sealed and delivered, but now the Q&A audience is asking: How will young people influence future elections now that 65,000 more of them are enrolled to vote? And should politicians in Western Sydney vote with their "no" constituents or with the majority of Australians who voted yes.

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Can young people change things by voting?

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Can young people change things by voting?

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Do we have a real democracy?

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Waleed talks about how you can change the outcome of the election by voting. Written by Waleed Aly & Tom Whitty #ENROLNOW #TheProjectTV