WHILE the adults of the world are soon to vote in 2016, the younger people aren't. We, as Year 7 juniors of Trinity Catholic College media crew, went out to ask the younger generation what they thought about the legal voting age for Australia.
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Responses to two polls were gathered from a 12- to 16-year-old age group.
We wanted to know whether the current legal voting age of 18 for Australia is ideal.
Do younger people want to vote at age 18? What do the younger people want for Australia? If not 18, then what age should it be? Younger? Older?
So, did younger Australians want to change the legal voting age? Our poll data suggests not, even from our younger participants.
On a simple yes (stay at 18) or no (change) question, they were happy for the age to stay at 18.
"You leave school and get out into the real world and understand more when you are around 18," one respondent said.
"At 18, as an adult, the law applies to you. You should have a say in it," said another.
However, Aleisha, age 12, said she thought the legal age for first-time voting "should be 25, because that's when your brain fully matures".
A few were concerned that many students were still in high school at 18 and not ready to shoulder the responsibility of voting.
What do you think? Have your say in our online poll below:
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