What are those big shifts?

Bandt:

The Prime Minister couldn’t convince a third of the country to vote for him last time. There’s less than a third of the country voting for the government. A bit more than a third voting for the opposition. And about a third voting for someone else. People are realising that we can’t keep voting for the same two parties and expect a different result.

And they want more voices at the table. And I think, as that flows through to the election, and there are more voices at the table – as there have been in the Senate now for a period of time – there’s going to be an obligation on those old parties to listen to new ideas. That is what people are crying out for. I think it would be incredibly popular to put dental into Medicare.

The things that we are putting on the table would be things that I think would stand the next government as a beacon of progressive reform that would go down in history. That is the exciting opportunity that is there for us.

So I think the short answer is that I think times are changing, people want more voices at the table, and they want governments to listen to the ideas that are being put there, work together, because good ideas should be implemented. And it’s about time that things like dental into Medicare became a reality.