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In the Inner city Betoota federal division of Mimimi, one local voter has today vowed to use his vote to teach Albanese a lesson in the Federal Election this May
How? By putting Labor last in both the lower and upper house.
Wyatt Enrich (32) says he’s never really thought much about the power he wields as a comfortable urban professional with a disposable income and 1.5 kids crammed into a heritage-defying rendered terrace house.
But after his darling left-wing messiah turned out to be a moderately-paced reformer, he’s been on a mission to oust him.
“We need to be focusing on tech and renewables” Says Wyatt.
“I come from a long line of Labor voters, but Turnbull won me over on that”
“And then Albo won me over on simply not being Scott Morrison. And Dutton repulses me”
“But Labor’s had three years and we still aren’t 100% renewable…”
“Not to mention his deafening silence on West Papua!”
“I’m voting Greens!”
However, what appears lost on voters like Wyatt, is that all he could very well be helping getting Dutton elected, if the Greens preferences start to split Labor’s edge over the Coalition.
While Greens senate candidate can usually depend on stray votes from Wyatt’s particular demographic, who usually feel too guilty to tick green in both houses – 2025 looks like the year that inner-Betoota’s local Liberal lower house candidates will finally leverage the preferences from this furious voter block of jaded enviro-bros and water birth mums.
Wyatt admits a Dutton government would be his worst nightmare. That’s why everyone needs to vote Green.
But at the end of the day, he doesn’t really identify as Labor voter anymore – not after his inheritance came through.
“Labor are a bit too, you know… uniony” says Wyatt.
“A bit bogan”
Local Greens candidate Andy Vaxxer (22) says this is exactly the voter detachment he had been banking on.
“I really do hope they all put Labor second. But, I’m technically campaigning against Labor so I can’t tell them that.”
“Fingers crossed we don’t turn this into a three-horse race”
