Submitted 4 weeks ago by Joshi@aussie.zone to australianpolitics@aussie.zone
Lowering the voting age to 16 would improve the health and well-being of young people, the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA) has proposed.
This would be probably help fight the Under 16 Social Media Ban idiocracy, Negative Gearing and and a bunch of other massive topics. Awesome. You just know the Libs would turn the accusations of “radicalized” youth to 11. I love how being anti povo and war is considered “radicalized”.
That 16 year old in the pic has seen better days
Having more “Youths” voting would probably improve the average voting competency.
If they cover Preferential Ballot Voting in School in “Social Studies” (or “Australian Studies”, or whatever they call it this decade), they would definitely be more in-touch than the majority of “grown up” voters.
I just had a colleague recommend lowering the the voting age at the top and too. Anyone over 70 no longer has any stake in the future so shouldn’t be able to vote for the future.
I immediately got Logan’s Run Carrousel vibes.
Probably not. Kids are stupid enough without shoving political propaganda down their throats.
Try not bashing them over the head with exams and the idea that failing them will fuck up their lives forever.
Joshi@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Original MJA article here
[Young voices, healthy futures: the rationale for lowering the voting age to 16
](mja.com.au/…/young-voices-healthy-futures-rationa…)