By Paul Donoughue, Margaret Burin and Elize Strydom

“To my peers that do have the chance to vote this year, they’re unsure of what to do because I think both campaigns are pretty similar … It’s a little ambiguous to me. There’s a lot of slogans — jobs and growth, represent the people. I don’t even know any more.

“I just think politics has to change a bit — less about getting votes or getting into power, but more about creating change … It’d be nice to see politicians taking young people seriously and looking more into education and health and services and how to support young people in the economy right now.

“Being a leader is about listening to the people and what they want — engaging with the elderly, the working class, people in high socio-economic communities, youth. Talking to them and listening to their views.

“Around me I have friends and family that identify themselves in the LGBTIQ community and for a leading nation I don’t think we’re doing enough to represent minorities.”