Voting Age

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The government says all MPs will get to vote on whether to lower the voting age to 16 for general elections, following today's Supreme Court decision that the current law is discriminatory.

The Prime… Video, Audio

At Parliament all MPs will get to vote on whether 16-year-olds can got to the ballot box in the general election.

In the past hour the Prime Minister's anounced the government will draft a new law… Video, Audio

A draft report from the Future for Local Government Review has a raft of changes to boost participation in local elections. One of the most direct is to lower the voting age for local councils to 16… Audio

Next month, a group of young activists will be in the Court of Appeal arguing that the current voting age is discriminatory under the Bill of Rights. Make It 16 members Ella Flavell and Lily Lewis… Audio

You can legally drive, fly a plane, have sex or own a gun at 16 - so why can't you vote? Well, there's a campaign underway aimed at changing that.  Audio

Do you support lowering the voting age? To what age...and why ? Audio

The National Party isn't in favour of lowering the voting age to 16. The organiser of the Make It 16 campaign, Oli Morphew, joins us to give her side of the argument. Audio

London School of Economic academics Sarah Harrison and Michael Bruter have completed an extensive survey of youth participation in the politics of European countries, and contributed chapters on the… Audio

Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft recently called for a lowering of the voting age and the advocacy group, Action Stations, is running a national petition calling for 16 year olds to be… Audio

Judge Andrew Becroft says it's time New Zealanders had a serious conversation on lowering the age of voting eligibility so that 16-17 year olds can vote. He says giving younger people the vote might… Audio