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Sixteen and never been pork-barrelled : Comments
By Hugh Jorgensen, published 4/11/2009Do 16-year-olds have 'the maturity to vote on matters that will materially affect the nation?'
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The way that politics works, with interest groups and campaign donations playing a major role in determining government policy, until younger people are able to help decide the outcomes of elections, politicians won't take their interests seriously. And they should - young people should have a say over the world they will, in a generation, be responsible for managing. Change is happening apace and two years can make a big difference to, for instance, developing climate change policy which actually reduces carbon emissions.
Perhaps it should be obligatory for people to state their age group when posting on this article? (For the record I am old enough to be a grandmother)