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| Thread ID: 150994 | 2022-11-21 00:35:00 | You've got to be dreaming Mate | kenj (9738) | PC World Chat |
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| 1489364 | 2022-11-21 06:18:00 | There's plenty of 16 year olds that have a clearer head and are more informed than many boomers! Bring it on I say, maybe we'll get some better long term thinkers. :) |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1489365 | 2022-11-21 07:18:00 | Putting the Voting Age back up to 21 would make more sense! :mad: Yet you can join the army before 21. 10 Years You can be held criminally responsible if you kill someone. 12 Years You can be criminally responsible for other serious crimes. 14 Years You legally stop being a ‘child’ and become a ‘young person’. Your parents are allowed to leave you at home without supervision. You can babysit children (if you’re capable of providing reasonable care and supervision to those children). 15 Years Your parents or guardians can apply for special permission for you to leave school early. You’re personally responsible if you don’t wear a seatbelt in a vehicle. 16 Years You qualify as either an adult worker or a starting-out worker. This means you’re entitled to get paid at least the minimum wage or the starting-out wage for any work you do for an employer. You can legally consent to sex after you turn 16. You’re also allowed to get married or enter a civil union or a de facto relationship, if your parents or guardians agree. You’re allowed to leave home and choose where you want to live. You can apply to get your learners drivers licence. You can decide which parent you want to live with if your parents are split up. You can independently agree to, or refuse, medical treatment. You can choose to leave school. If you have left school, you are able to work full-time. Your parents can’t change your name unless you consent to it. If you are married or in a civil union, you can change your name or make a will. You can apply for a firearms licence. You can get an adult passport. 17 Years You can apply to join the Police Force (to start training at the Police College and to become a Police Officer when you’re 18). You can generally apply to join the Navy, Army or Air Force. 18 Years Your parents no longer have any of the rights or responsibilities that come from being your guardian. You’re allowed to get married or enter a civil union without your parents’ or guardians’ consent. You’re allowed to vote. You can also stand as an election candidate if you want to. The Police are no longer allowed to take you home or to a youth residence or shelter if they think you’re ‘at risk’. You can be questioned by police without your parents or other guardians present. You’re allowed to buy alcohol and cigarettes, and gamble at TAB. You can buy lottery tickets. You’re allowed to change your own name. You can be employed as a bar person or work in a liquor store. You can be employed to work in premises with a restricted licence. You can become a police officer. You can ask your bank for an individual cheque account, credit card or loan. You are fully bound by any contract you enter into, such as a tenancy agreement or consumer credit contract. You can be called in for jury service. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1489366 | 2022-11-22 01:48:00 | We need fully aware adults with their feet on the ground who know how the systems work and want to see all citizens lives improving, not a bunch of immature space cadets voting. Be great if all our politicians could meet that standard as well 😉 |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1489367 | 2022-11-22 02:09:00 | Be great if all our politicians could meet that standard as well 😉 That's just to much to ask!! :( Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1489368 | 2022-11-22 04:38:00 | Uneducated/poorly educated younger people will be more naive and tend to have political views which are simple-minded, therefore they will vote national/republican. At 16 easily manipulated and led, just what the national party/republicans want. There are plenty of adults well over 18 who fit that category... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1489369 | 2022-11-22 04:40:00 | If one in ten voters could exceed that benchmark, it'd be a great leap forward. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1489370 | 2022-12-03 20:40:00 | The argument that it is age based discrimination is such bollocks. They argue to set it at 16, which is just setting the discrimination at another level. Why not set it at 3 months of age? Because some degree of age discrimination is undeniably required, and 3 months is indusputably bollocks. Kids at 16 are still heavily influenced by their peers and their teachers. Puting the age at 16 will probably work well for teachers wrt wage bargaining. They'll have 30 swinging voters sitting in front of them every day, listening to every word. Keep it at 18. |
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