{"id":50552,"date":"2022-11-25T11:57:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/im-tired-of-asking-adults-to-save-the-planet-readers-have-their-say-on-lowering-the-voting-age-in-nz"},"modified":"2022-11-25T11:57:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T02:57:43","slug":"im-tired-of-asking-adults-to-save-the-planet-readers-have-their-say-on-lowering-the-voting-age-in-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=50552","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m tired of asking adults to save the planet\u2019: readers have their say on lowering the voting age in NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand supreme court\u2019s decision to declare the current age of voting, 18, discriminatory has reignited a debate over young people\u2019s rights<\/p>\n<p>Are today\u2019s teenagers politically aware wunderkinds on the frontlines of the climate crisis, underdeveloped thinkers with perpetually messy bedrooms \u2013 or \u2013 just people, with the same foolishness, foibles or ignorance as other members of the voting public?<\/p>\n<p>Questions over teenagers\u2019 decision-making abilities have been in the headlines this week, after New Zealand\u2019s supreme court declared in a landmark ruling that the current voting age \u2013 18 years old \u2013 was discriminatory against younger New Zealanders. In response, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/21\/voting-age-of-18-is-discriminatory-new-zealand-supreme-court-rules\">the government has pledged to introduce legislation to lower the age<\/a> and for parliament to vote on it in the next six months.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/nov\/25\/im-tired-of-asking-adults-to-save-the-planet-readers-have-their-say-on-lowering-the-voting-age-in-nz\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Zealand supreme court\u2019s decision to declare the current age of voting, 18, discriminatory has reignited a debate over young people\u2019s rightsAre today\u2019s teenagers politically aware wunderkinds on the frontlines of the climate crisis, underdevelop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,56,933,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-new-zealand-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50553,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50552\/revisions\/50553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}