Fifty-one years ago, Australia's voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 by Gough Whitlam, the Labor prime minister at the time, ...
A petition calling for the voting age in the ACT to be lowered to 16 was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Thursday (5 ...
South Australian students are calling for a shift on matters ... is one of many calling on the state government to lower the ...
Australia’s government wants to ban children up to age 16 from social media and is spending ... as a soundbite-y proposal to signal concern to voting parents on a popular issue ahead of an ...
I’ve actually spoken to a number of young people who do want the voting age lowered to 16, but I’ve also spoken ... from young people right across Australia for a 15-person young ...
At the same time, many of the same people are arguing for lowering the voting age to 16 — and possibly younger. What’s the rationale? It is often glibly asserted that voting never hurt anyone.
The current debates among parliamentarians about lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 lack this kind of catalyst. While there are some MPs, senators and advocacy groups that advocate lowering the ...
"No government is going to be able to protect every child from every threat - but we have to do all we can," Australian Prime ... by children under the age of 16. Exactly how all of this will ...
The battle for control over Rupert Murdoch’s $14.9 billion media empire has escalated into a courtroom showdown, pitting ...
The strange thing about going inside GB News is how little there is to go inside. The broadcaster has lived rent-free in the ...
Australia is taking matters ... to introduce new laws that set age limits this year, saying that the government was considering a range between 14 and 16 for the cutoff. In a video posted ...