The Greens Will Introduce A Bill To Lower The Voting Age To 16 Next Year Bc Teens Are ‘Left Out’

The Australian Greens will make lowering the federal voting age from 18 to 16 a legislative priority in 2023 and it is about fkn time politicians formally discuss this. Federal MP for Brisbane and the Greens’ spokesperson for youth Stephen Bates submitted a Notice of Intention to move a bill to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote on Monday. It will be the first Private Members Bill (a bill that’s not part of the government’s planned legislation) of the year when parliament returns in February. “Sixteen and 17-year-olds shouldn’t have to worry about these things like climate change or the housing crisis or HECS debts in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, but this is the society we’ve created for them and that is why they are concerned,” Bates told PEDESTRIAN.TV.