Submission to the proposed Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Lowering Voting Age and Increasing Voter Participation) Bill 2018

This submission is ARACY’s response to the proposed Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Lowering Voting Age and Increasing Voter Participation) Bill 2018.  The decision on whether to lower the voting age in Australian to 16 can be considered on bothethical and empirical grounds. The major ethical considerations are clear; when considered from ahuman rights perspective, citizens under […]