Nick Young :tinoflag:<p>If you go with the assumption that climate action has become a big driver of voting in Australia, recent ‘surprising’ election results make a lot of sense, and the data are now bearing this out. </p><p>I suspect NZ is lagging behind but likley to go the same way as the climate floods, droughts, slips, storms and forest fires intensify. <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/28/climate-concern-the-main-reason-voters-swung-to-independents-at-federal-election-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/australia-news</span><span class="invisible">/2022/nov/28/climate-concern-the-main-reason-voters-swung-to-independents-at-federal-election-study-finds?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>auspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/climatevoter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatevoter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/election2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>election2023</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/nzpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nzpol</span></a></p>