Despite the fact that it's compulsory to vote in this country, many people simply never enrol or don't take the democratic process seriously enough and scribble on their ballot paper.

In a sense it seems like sometimes the political wheel will keep turning with no consideration for those who voted, but it's more important than ever to know that being involved can, and will, make a difference.

It was heartening to see enrolment figures at the announcement of the same-sex plebiscite with the number of new people added to the electoral roll exceeding six figures.

I can't speak for everyone but I'd wager many would agree that we're all kinda just tired of politics at the moment. I say that as someone who stresses to people the importance of voting properly.

It doesn't have to be this way though, I'm tired of it all because it really just seems like parties don't fight on policy anymore, they're not out there saying here's what we will do to make things better, though that does happen in some cases of course.

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We should be excited for the future of our country, instead what we hear is 'things are going to be really bad, unless you vote for us'.

Instead what you mostly hear are reasons you should not vote for this party or person, personal attacks and sometimes even straight up lies about people and policies.

The United Australia Party [UAP] which nabbed second place on Liberal how-to-vote cards lists just four federal policies on their website, each with varying levels of vagueness.

Why the lack of information?

Australia voted in 2013 and Tony Abbott was elected PM, but in the end we were left with Malcolm Turnbull. In 2016 the Australian people voted for Malcolm Turnbull and we ultimately ended up with Scott Morrison.

What happened to working together on bettering the country?

Senator Kristina Keneally recently held a press conference to highlight the silliness of the Liberal Party coming out to rubbish Labor's policies on electric vehicles, highlighting that their policies were largely the same and they had all spoken positively in the past about electric vehicles.

It is just tired and dumb to be honest.

I'd feel much better about things if party leaders came out and said that they can agree on something together no matter the outcome instead of always playing the boogeyman game. Do you agree?