Kiron22 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 4:09pm:



I was merely clarifying your post about minors getting a mortgage. Theoretically they can. Can't see it ever coming to fruition unless Mum and Dad sign as guarantors.

I think young people will be much more erratic voters than people give them credit for. Honestly most young voters will probably vote Green or if they are right wing, the LDP, shouldn't that give more diversity in Government?

Also as I have stated, there is a huge issue with no youth representation. So many cuts and attacks that have happened in recent years hit Youth the hardest because they can't cut the benefits of boomers. What can be done to solve this than to get more young people voting?

I dread what is going to happen in a decade when Boomers and old Gen X literally dwarf everyone before them.

Everyone gets screwed sooner or later I agree, its part of the globalist agenda of course, I remember banks and right wing economists crowing back in 2012 that Austalia must lower its "living standards" and people should get used to working longer and not retiring, of course they have started to phase that in and Welfare is being demolished.

Again though, the youth are generally the first thrown to the slaughter, look at TAFE deregulation, Uni deregulation, no welfare for 6 months (when young people likely have higher costs/no savings), cuts to education, destruction of NBN, no action on climate change.

All these hurt the young, and barely touch the boomers since they will be dead by 2050 when its estimated at current rates the middle east will literally be unlivable.

I think giving 16 year olds the choice to vote will increase political participation by young people because they will maybe at 18 have several years of politics already being part of their lives, some of your friends at 16 vote, its likely you will enroll to vote at the next election when your 19 because people are actually participating in politics around you.

Will many 16 year olds vote? I actually don't think so, but I would be surprised if there wasn't a huge rise in youth voting at the 18,19,20,21 bracket.

Last time I looked we don't live in a dictatorship.

Kiron22 wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 4:47pm:



We do. We just don't have a dictator for life. They get replaced every so often.

mariacostel wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 5:38pm:


Indeed, why not, provided they have proven they have a proper understanding of 'political science.'

Maqqa wrote on Nov 1^st, 2015 at 5:47pm:


'Whiney?'