‘I’m sick of asking adults to save the planet’: Readers have their say on lowering New Zealand’s voting age
AAre today’s teenagers politically aware prodigies on the frontlines of the climate crisis, underdeveloped thinkers with perpetually messy bedrooms – or – just people, with the same craziness, weaknesses or same ignorance as other members of the voting public? Questions about the decision-making abilities of teenagers made headlines this week, after New Zealand’s Supreme Court …