Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

The Make it 16 campaigners are annoyed apparently – because their campaign’s been shoved on the back burner by the new PM, who has worked out that it’s not a priority right now and added it to his so-called ‘bonfire’.  But it shouldn’t be a priority right now, not when the government has to contend with rising inflation, the health system in dire straits, crime at massive highs, a huge cyclone relief effort, infrastructure badly needing doing... and all the other problems we have right now. Lowering the voting age is well down the list. But not as far as the campaigners themselves are concerned and in that lies part of the problem.  Ability to read a room maybe comes with age and experience. It’s juvenile to stand there whining about it being a human rights breach when the rest of the country clearly has other more pressing concerns. I don’t doubt the Make it 16 campaigners can actually see, but they just disagree that their plight shouldn’t also be on the list. They see this as them being ‘sidelined,’ and th