Parliament now has to justify keeping the voting age at 18 – it’s a hard argument to make
- Written by Nick Munn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Waikato
GettyI magesThis week’s Supreme Court judgment on lowering New Zealand’s legal voting age has, at times, been interpreted as some kind of mandate for change. That’s not quite the case, but the court’s ruling does at least make change a possibility.
What the court has done is accept the claims made by members of the Make It 16...
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