Labor is dealing with changing demographics. Can it provide what voters want?

‘The Greens are deliberately building their brand as the champion of the kids while portraying Labor as a grumpy parent imposing a fiscal curfew.’ Photograph: Steven Markham/AAP

The fury around the housing Australia future fund is the sound of new political identities taking form, a once rigidly binary system fragmenting as a growing number of voters look to take a walk on the wild side.

The Greens’ gambit to staple a rental freeze on to the Albanese government’s social housing initiative is brazenly calculated to woo a growing cohort of younger voters for whom the housing consensus offers little but platitudes and ongoing pain.