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	Podcast:		Checkpoint
	Episode:		Parliament to debate lowering voting age to 16
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:11:39
	Publish Date:		2022-11-21 04:07:00
	Description:		At Parliament all MPs will get to vote on whether 16-year-olds can got to the ballot box in the general election. In the past hour the Prime Minister's anounced the government will draft a new law lowering the voting age to 16 following a Supreme Court ruling today. In the historic decision, the Court declared the voting age of 18 to be discriminatory to 16 and 17-year-olds. Sixteen-year-olds are able to leave school, learn to drive, get a job and pay tax. The 'Make It 16' group argued 16-and-17-year-olds also make adult decisions and preventing them from voting until 18 was unjustified age discrimination. Lisa Owen talks to lawyer Graeme Edgeler.
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