It’s time to lower the voting age to 16.
Right now young people are inheriting a planet, economy, and living conditions that are broken. A future that is being decided for them, not by them.
They can drive, work and enlist in the ADF but they can’t vote.
Australia has fallen behind. Lowering the voting age has just been proposed by Aotearoa New Zealand, and already exists in Argentina, Austria, Bosnia, Brazil, Cuba, East Timor, Ecuador, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Israel, Malta, Nicaragua, Scotland and Wales.
Time for young people to take the power back and have a say in their future.