{"id":50440,"date":"2022-11-22T10:49:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T01:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/22\/new-zealands-supreme-court-has-forced-voting-age-onto-agenda-exposing-absurd-arguments-for-status-quo"},"modified":"2022-11-22T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T01:49:43","slug":"new-zealands-supreme-court-has-forced-voting-age-on-to-agenda-exposing-absurd-arguments-for-status-quo-henry-cooke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50440","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s supreme court has forced voting age on to agenda, exposing absurd arguments for status quo | Henry Cooke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly empowered supreme court has blown up the long-running debate on youth voting, but parliament has shrugged off its intervention<\/p>\n<p>Names can be deceiving. While many Kiwis might assume that our supreme court is in fact supreme \u2013 able to strike down laws and change the country \u2013 it is not. Like the UK, parliament in New Zealand is supreme. Even if the courts decide parliament\u2019s laws disagree with the Bill of Rights Act, the democratic body is able to tell the court to stick to complex tax cases, thanks. Nothing handcuffs parliament, nothing is above it.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the supreme court <em>was<\/em> recently handed new power to force issues on to the agenda of parliament, and has almost immediately used it to blow up the long-running debate about youth voting, exposing the silly positions of most involved.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/22\/new-zealands-supreme-court-has-forced-voting-age-onto-agenda-exposing-absurd-arguments-for-status-quo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly empowered supreme court has blown up the long-running debate on youth voting, but parliament has shrugged off its interventionNames can be deceiving. While many Kiwis might assume that our supreme court is in fact supreme \u2013 able to strike dow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,268,56,933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-jacinda-ardern","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50441,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50440\/revisions\/50441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}