Justifying Lowering the Voting Age w/ Dr Nick Munn: November 25, 2022

This week the Supreme Court has made a judgement on lowering New Zealand’s legal voting age.

The court has accepted the claims made by members of the Make It 16 campaign that the current voting age limit of 18 is inconsistent with section 19 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act. Essentially, preventing 16- and 17-year-olds from voting discriminates against them on the basis of their age.

The decision means parliament now has to defend the 18 age limit if it wants to keep it.

Joe spoke to Dr Nick Munn, a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy from the University of Waikato on the matter.