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MILLENNIALS PUT AUSTRALIAN POLITICIANS ON NOTICE

Announcement posted by Rocky Scopelliti 14 Nov 2018

‘YOUR YOUTHQUAKE IS COMING IN 2019’

Sydney.13 November 2018.

 

US Millennials sent the Republican Party a clear message in the midterm elections – ‘Your Youthquake has arrived’. Preliminary data shows a 11 per cent increase to 31 per cent in Millennial voter turnout with a 24-point swing to Democrats since they cast their 2014 vote.


Futurologist and Author of a new book Youthquake 4.0, said “Australian politicians need to sit up and take notice 21 – 35-year old are now the largest generation at 5.22 million and 34 per cent of the workforce in Australia – their voice matters”. 


Scopelliti explains that the same sign posts and conditions from the 2017 British general elections in voter turnout and swing to Corbyn’s Labour Party, and the recent US midterm elections, are present in the mood of Australian Millennials. 


In a global study by the World Economic forum of more than 24,000 Millennials across 186 countries including Australia used in the book, Millennials here indicated that:

 

  • Only 25 per cent believe Government are fair and honest;

  • The greatest frustration they have in government leaders is their insincerity/dishonesty (39 per cent);

  • 32 per cent believe that leaders should make difficult decisions even if they are unpopular;

  • 58 per cent believe that government should include refugees in the national workforce as a response to the global refugee crisis;

  • The most serious issue effecting Australia is inequality (income and discrimination) (57 per cent) and that government taxes and policies (36 per cent) and political ideologies (29 per cent) were important factors contributing to inequality in Australia. 

 “With Federal elections due in 2019, a political bus roadshow is not going to cut it with the force de majeure of the Millennial generation in a quarter-life crisis combined with the transparency of digital technologies. Their views matter politically, socially, economically and technologically and they want to be heard, not just listened to when the bus rolls into town” said Scopelliti.

“Governments must embrace a juvenescence (constantly adapting, and evolving) if they want to remain relevant – otherwise they’ll be Youthquaked” said Scopelliti

Scopelliti’s expertise and pioneering research into the confluence of demographic change with emerging digital technology has influenced the way we think about our social, cultural, economic and technological future. More than 150 boards and leadership teams – including Fortune 100 companies – seek his strategic advice annually

For more information see : http://www.youthquake4.com/