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Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16
Reply #15 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 6:53am

Little bit of history to people that don't want the voting age lowed to 16.

It was the McMahon government that passed the law in parliament so 18 years old could vote. McMahon didn't give it to the Governor-General to get the Royal Assent to bring it into law before the 1972 election, Whitlam gave the bill to the Governor-General to get the Royal Assent.

There was a young person that try to get the High Court to get McMahon to give the bill to the Governor-General to get the royal Assent before the 1972 election so 18yo could vote. The High Court was going to hear the case AFTER the 1972 election. But it become law before the case was heard.

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Armchair_Politician Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26415 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #16 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 6:57am Just another useless thought bubble brought to you by Bull Shitten...
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Labor voter Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 302 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #17 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:05am Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 6:57am: Just another useless thought bubble brought to you by Bull Shitten... Calling someone names tells me that you have lost the argument.
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Armchair_Politician Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26415 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #18 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:09am Labor voter wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:05am: Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 6:57am: Just another useless thought bubble brought to you by Bull Shitten... Calling someone names tells me that you have lost the argument. Get a job and pay some tax, you loafer.
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Its time Gold Member Offline Boot libs out Posts: 25639 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #19 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:12am BigOl64 wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 5:13am: Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 4:28am: I was not too interested in voting when I was 16 I find it impossible to give a f**ck at 51
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Its time Gold Member Offline Boot libs out Posts: 25639 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #20 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:15am Should raise it to 30, after the last election result you have to question the electorates maturity falling for 3 word slogans.
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mariacostel Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7344 Sydney Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #21 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:30am How about we INCREASE the voting age to 25? There goes half the Green vote an a percent of Labor's vote
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Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16
Reply #22 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:30am

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:09am:

Labor voter wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:05am:

Armchair_Politician wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 6:57am:

Just another useless thought bubble brought to you by Bull Shitten...

Calling someone names tells me that you have lost the argument.

Get a job and pay some tax, you loafer.

This is a post I put in the Tens Of Thousands Angry About Centrelink thead reply #30

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I am on the old age pension and I work for 50 years paying my fair share of taxes, and I never complain about the amount of taxes I paid.

I know that the taxes I paid back then help to paid for the pension to the people that done it hard during the depression, it also help to paid for the veterans that fought in the first and second world wars to make as free. It also help to built public schools and hospital that you can use today. My taxes I paid back then when I was working, also paid for the roads that you are using today, not like today when they built a road the put a toll on it if you want to drive on it.

So never come and said it is free money we have paid for it many times over, just think yourself lucky that we paid taxes and built all the infrastructure that you are using today.

So don't ever come on here and tell me to get a job and paid some taxes. I think I have paid my fair share of taxes over the years can you say the same.

I know the liberal party wants people to work until they are 70 but guess what I am over 70

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skippy. Gold Member Offline Posts: 20882 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #23 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:15am mariacostel wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:30am: How about we INCREASE the voting age to 25? There goes half the Green vote an a percent of Labor's vote Most Green voters are university educated and mature. Unlike conservative voters who tend to be Westy bogans. Your comments prove me correct, dear.
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____ Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 33410 Australia Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #24 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:21am mariacostel wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:30am: How about we INCREASE the voting age to 25? There goes half the Green vote an a percent of Labor's vote There's the other end. High rate of dementia rates helps explains the vote for the libs with older people.
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Lord Herbert Gold Member Offline Posts: 34441 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #25 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:26am Here's another effort by the Left to win more 'default' votes for their Party at election times. Going way back, successive Australian governments have been tweaking the immigration streams to increase the number of people arriving who will be voting Labor or Liberal.
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skippy. Gold Member Offline Posts: 20882 Gender:	Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16 Reply #26 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:27am Wow, those numbers are huge for over 70s. Maybe over 70s should provide a Dr certificate to prove they are not demented given a huge proportion of them have no f...y idea. No wonder the conservatives court the senior vote, a huge percentage of them don't know what they're doing.
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Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16
Reply #27 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:48am

BigOl64 wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 5:13am:

Sprintcyclist wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 4:28am:

I was not too interested in voting when I was 16

I find it impossible to give a f**ck at 51

hilarious!..

have they counted the informal votes lately... Grin

why not make it 15....even 14... come on what difference is there in these [growing two heads years]...if the sheet is going to hit the fan its usually from the age of 14 to 18 ask any parent.. Roll Eyes

maybe Billyboil hasnt got to that stage yet Grin

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since when can you join the army at 16? news to me!

I am all for putting the voting age UP...when you look at the senate and the damage it is causing.. Roll Eyes

... 30 would be a good start Grin

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Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16
Reply #28 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:51am

skippy. wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:27am:

Wow, those numbers are huge for over 70s. Maybe over 70s should provide a Dr certificate to prove they are not demented given a huge proportion of them have no f...y idea. No wonder the conservatives court the senior vote, a huge percentage of them don't know what they're doing.

it wont be long skippy and you will find out should you be privileged to qualify to live that long.. Roll Eyes

it is a privilege to get old you know....

and no not everyones brains give out...as much as you like to claim....

dementia is not a disease of the OLD anymore.sadly it knows no barriers...

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Re: Lowering The Voting Age To 16
Reply #29 - Oct 31^st, 2015 at 8:54am

mariacostel wrote on Oct 31^st, 2015 at 7:30am:

How about we INCREASE the voting age to 25? There goes half the Green vote an a percent of Labor's vote

Love it!

And no immigrants or refugees to vote for at least the first 10 years of residency.

And to be brutally honest - no Women's Vote until at very least 40 years of age.

Women are nurturing creatures with sob-sister tendencies whose intelligence and grasp of reality crumbles and melts away whenever their gender-instincts finds yet another 'victim' to champion and defend against those brutish male realists who want to turn back boats, and who do not fall for the blackmail of sewn lips in Detention Centres - or 'Children Overboard' stunts.

Women under 40 should be allowed to vote but only if they can get 5 men who are not relatives to sign a consent form that the woman is not an air-head full of Women's Magazine and Midday Soapies bullshit ..

She qualifies if she ...

1. Buys and reads newspapers ... (this already eliminates at least 90% of women).

2. Is not a women who began her 'Single Motherhood' while any of her children were still under age 5.

3. Is not over-weight by the age of 30.

4. Doesn't wear thongs - or tattoos where you can see it/them, or any kind of facial bolt, ring, or pin.

5. Doesn't have a boyfriend or husband who looks like a typical idiot of the latest two or three generations.

6. Is in a profession.

etc

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