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	Podcast:		Saturday Morning
	Episode:		Dr Andy Mycock: lessons from UK on lowering the voting age
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:12:58
	Publish Date:		2022-05-06 20:45:00
	Description:		The group behind the Make It 16 campaign will soon be heading to the New Zealand Supreme Court to seek declaration that preventing 16 and 17 year-olds from voting is age discrimination and a breach of the Bill of Rights. Andy Mycock works with a UK group advocating for lowering the voting age and has been following developments in New Zealand closely. Mycock says it's noteworthy that campaigners here have adopted a legal route to potential reform. He says it goes against the mainstream constitutional approach adopted in other countries - such as Scotland and Wales - where supportive political parties passed parliamentary legislation to reform the voting age.
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