How Australia’s First-Time Voters Feel About the 2025 Election

Australians will vote in a May 3 ballot in which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is campaigning to become the nation’s first leader in more than two decades to win back-to-back elections.

But Albanese must first overcome a rising tide of disillusion in the electorate after three years of resurgent inflation and high interest rates that, combined with a housing shortage that sent rents soaring, triggered a cost-of-living crisis in the nation.

This will be the first election where Millennials and Gen Z voters significantly outnumber those aged above 60 — primarily Baby Boomers — making the younger cohort influential politically, ...