Do you think voting should be compulsory? Are you a swinging voter? Has maturity change the way you think with regard to voting? Have you changed the way you vote from the way your parents encouraged you to vote ... A one off payment is to be announced by the Australian treasurer in the upcoming budget to help with the cost of living. Would that be a vote winner. If it were a princely sum of a couple of thousand dollars, I think I would have to take the money, even though what we really need is a weekly increase.