Kate Hawkesby: If young people are not even engaged in life in general, how is it they're getting engaged in politics?

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Mar 19, 2023 · 3m

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…