Changing the voting age from 18 would allow more young citizens to make voting a habit before they lose interest in politics.
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People under 18 can leave school, get a job, drive a car and pay taxes. Should they be allowed to vote too?
Young people don't get to vote on the issues of the day, but that doesn't mean they can't build power and make their voices heard.
For teenagers, blogging about politics in school can help them hone their views – and be more tolerant of others'.
Lowering the voting age to 16 would bring the age of political responsibility more in line with the age of criminal responsibility and the age of informed consent for medical procedures.
Teens' brains develop different skills along a predictable timeline. These milestones should influence the legal age boundaries for voting, buying guns and being put to death.
The UK doesn't have enough evidence to back votes for 16 and 17-year-olds.
Results from the latest report into civics and citizenship education show by the time students hit year ten, the majority of them have little knowledge about Australian civics and democracy.
When children and young people have opportunities for active citizenship, they demonstrate a wide range of ways of contributing to their communities.
There is a growing canyon now separating politics as understood and practiced by political authorities from the political practices of everyday people.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is promising a Labor government would reduce the voting age – at least to 17 and perhaps 16.
Research suggests young people are engaged in politics, they just don't like the politicians.
The case for lowering the voting age to 16 in the UK would appear to have been strengthened by the resonance of young people in the Scottish referendum. But excitement over this issue masks a deeper problem…
Underneath the sound and fury of the Scottish independence referendum, numerous changes to how Scotland goes to election polls have been proposed by the Scottish government – in particular reducing the…
Pressure is building in democracies around the world to lower the voting age to 16. For national elections, Brazil (in 1988), Austria (2007) and Argentina (2012) have led the way. For local elections…
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