It's hard to judge someone simply by their
age. Boys will be boys (and so will a lot
of middle-aged men). Just joking.

Seriously though, this young man obviously
has the confidence of his community
and who knows what he can do?
I remember going for a job interview where
the young man interviewing me was just a kid,
or so I thought. It turned out to be the
toughest interview I've ever encountered,
and taught me a great deal. In the end
I was so impressed that I envied the organisation
that had hired him. He would have been an asset to
any employer.

Heh. As I've said before, I wouldn't vote for a 20 year old because I don't think anyone that age and limited life experience could adequately represent me in Parliament. However, his electorate clearly thought otherwise, so he either impressed them incredibly with his personal talents or he benefited from a very well-run campaign and an underperforming ALP incumbent. Whatever, that's certainly democracy and good luck to him.

I suspect he'll be doing a lot of growing up in the next three years. As GrahamY said in another thread, if the electorate got it wrong in electing young Wyatt, they'll undoubtedly correct the situation at the next election.

You could look at it another way - the House of Reps has lost Wilson Tuckey and gained Wyatt Roy. It's hard to imagine that Roy could be any worse than Tuckey :)

The last town I lived in has a very young mayor (he is something like 25yo now and in his second term as mayor I think). He was elected a councillor at the age of 18 or 19. Yes he has a somewhat limited life experience, but is one of those people who is not afraid to ask advice and not afraid to act on his own judgement of it. And its not a back-blocks town but a reasonably large one that also has a very fine line between development and risk to the long-term local ecology and economy (think BHP vs the farmers).

Most people of a certain age will act a certain way, but dont judge one by the actions of everyone else. Young Wyatt will probably be a more enthusisastic and optimistic participant and representative than many twice his age, burdened by cynicism. Good luck to him - he will be judged on his merits by the people that put him there in the first place.

I was/am concerned about the legal prospect of a person under the age of 21, but there seems there may be an option with the other section, As far as C.J.Morgan goes, if you can point out any person in parliament that has been worth voting for, you have less pride in who is going to make any more laws to send us further into recession than the mobs we have had over the last 20 years or more, you never know, he might just motivate some of those dodgy older hasbeens. As far as I am concerned, you could cut their salary by 80%, and they would still be well paid. He wouldn't need to be very good to be better than the last two treasurers, that's for sure, they couldn't keep away from a recession, could they?

IT'll be interesting to see how he goes. This topic has been all over Twitter since the "election" and haven't seen anyone successfully dispute his legitimacy to be in his position. Chances are they figured that stuff before he could register to run.

Seems like an articulate young fella - the most articulate on "election night" - and 'worldly' and wisdom don't necessarily go hand in hand.

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