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Should 16-year-olds have voting rights?

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:09:34
Publish Date: 2022-12-08 02:25:44
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Reducing the voting age to 16 will be one of the first issues put to parliament in the new year as the Greens push to give younger Australians a say in politics.

It’s the second time the party has attempted to get the voting age lowered.

So will it work this time? And should 16 year-olds have voting rights?

Today, economics correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Rachel Clun joins Kate Aubusson to discuss the fight to lower Australia's voting age.

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