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"Personally I'm a swinging voter and at the moment I'd vote for anyone but the leading parties," one plain-speaking race-goer says.

The Climate Institute poll reflects many other recent surveys that show the government risks being caught on the wrong side of swinging voter opinion ahead of elections expected next year.

Distinct from the more traditional swinging voter, authors Ron Booker and Eric Sidoti see these 18-24-year-old voters as permanently unaligned and developing "electoral habits of their own making".