Young voices, healthy futures: the rationale for lowering the voting age to 16

Med J Aust. 2024 Nov 18:221 Suppl 10:S18-S22. doi: 10.5694/mja2.52496. Epub 2024 Oct 21.

Kevin Kapeke¹, Planning Saw^{2

3}, Edward Krutsch^{4

5}, Claudia Burgner⁵, Hannah Pitt⁶, Ravin Desai⁴, Khalid Muse⁷, Jennifer Rowan⁸, Charlize Nalupta¹, Judith Bessant⁹, Susan M Sawyer^{2

10}, Sara Wardak¹¹

¹ Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, Melbourne, VIC.
² University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.
³ Global Health Youth Connect, Melbourne, VIC.
⁴ Make it 16, Melbourne, VIC.
⁵ Run For It, Melbourne, VIC.
⁶ Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Melbourne, VIC.
⁷ Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University Institute for Health Transformation, Melbourne, VIC.
⁸ Youth Affairs Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC.
⁹ RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC.
¹⁰ Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC.
¹¹ University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

No abstract available

Keywords: Adolescence; Health policy; Legislation, medical.

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