It was uncanny timing that right after a roundly disappointing COP27 global climate change conference came a Supreme Court rebuke that young New Zealanders are unfairly excluded from voting.
All that was missing was a giant hologram of young Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg “Howdare-you”-ing us from atop the Beehive.
With equally eerie synchronicity, the case for lowering the voting age to 16 neutered itself within the day’s news cycle, as it became clear that Parliament – average age 48.38 years – couldn’t muster the requisite 75% majority to amend the electoral law.
The crowning squelch was the potential consolation prize of lowering the age for
