The issues Canberrans want candidates to take action on in the 2025 federal election.
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00:00I care about the public service, because I was a public service myself once.
00:04I also care about the environment.
00:06I think the lack of movement on the environment was a bit sad,
00:09and I've noticed the lack of sighting of our environment minister during this election.
00:15And I'm also concerned about gambling ads.
00:19So I think those three things are enough to help me decide how to vote.
00:23Look, certainly more affordable homes for people in and around the region
00:27are very important to me and my family.
00:30Some control over our spending, a stronger stance on international affairs
00:37and particularly what's happening in Gaza.
00:40Those things are very important to us as a society,
00:43so I think we need to stand up for those, and our government needs to stand up for those.
00:47Basically, my main concern is, because the world is just such a crazy place at the moment,
00:56we're not alone, but Australia needs to put itself number one without co-tailing to anyone,
01:04I'm afraid, especially not to America.
01:06And it is very important for us to look at the arts, because arts feed everything.
01:14It feeds your well-being, it fills your education.
01:18You know, it's just everywhere, except nobody talks about the arts.
01:22And my second issue is obviously education, and health, and of course housing.
01:32Everybody talks about housing, but nobody talks about how we got to it, how we got to this situation.
01:40And I don't think because, from my point of view, because no one is talking about it,
01:45nothing's going to be done.
01:47I'm not being negative or pessimistic.
01:51I am an optimist.
01:53And, you know, when I bought my first house, I worked two jobs.
01:58My partner worked two jobs.
02:01We worked like dogs.
02:02I'm not kidding.
02:03And we loved it, because we knew what we want.
02:06And I don't think young people nowadays have that choice, which is really sad.
02:13And that's one thing that needs to be fixed somehow.
02:17I don't know how.
02:21The other thing that I would like to say is that the Korean politicians really need to get off their high horse
02:27and need to start realising that we are their bosses.
02:33They work for us.
02:34Stop buying your multi-million dollar mansions.
02:40Stop giving yourselves incredible pay rises.
02:44And start looking at Australia as a whole and not just an individual.
02:50Because I believe that's what's happened.