What's top of mind for voters ahead of the ACT election

Canberra voters share the issues that matter most ahead of the ACT election in 2024.

Transcript

00:00Is there any particular issues that are top of mind for you when you're thinking about voting?

00:07Definitely development in the capital city because I see what I consider

00:21mismanagement, not deliberate mismanagement, but a lot of false steps with our taxpayers' money.

00:30Not pointing the finger at CIT but, you know, there have been a lot and a lot of that money

00:37could be redirected towards housing us and obviously hospital treatment, medical,

00:46is front of mind for people my age because we simply engage with the system more.

00:51I am quite pragmatic about my approach to what this country needs

00:58and that is more help for the people, especially in the way of health care, in the way of child

01:06care, especially single mothers who are trying to have a job and also afford child care. It's

01:14very difficult. The price of groceries for me. Yep, definitely. It's so unaffordable.

01:23The tram. What's wrong with the tram? Well, it's costing us lots of money and we're missing out

01:29on lots of different things like fixing the roads and hospitals and schools and things.

01:37And we don't utilise the tram though, do we? No, of course it doesn't come here.

01:42The cost of living for sure. That's why I shop here.

01:47They've had very good publicity in the last couple of days.

01:50Housing. Lack of? Well, the public transport's a bit of a one. I suppose some of the local

01:55amenities and so on around here but it doesn't really come to mind. There's no big issues

02:01that are really upsetting me. So, yeah, fairly complacent actually.