Voting Age Survey (LIVE)
Your voice matters.
We want to hear what you have to say about the voting age.
When I’ve been speaking with young people recently, I ask them what the most important issues to them are and how they would like to be involved in resolving them. A common request has been the right to vote.
If 16-year-olds can work, drive and pay taxes – should they be able to vote?
Climate change, renewable energy, human rights affect us all and what we decide today impacts young people’s future – should they be able to have a say?
Would you like to choose whether you vote or not in each election or referendum, until it becomes mandatory at age 18?
This survey has 6 questions and will take you less than 5 minutes.
There are no right or wrong answers we are just asking for your opinion. If you need help, ask a parent, guardian or other trusted adult for assistance – especially if you are 10 years or younger.
What happens to what you tell me?
I won’t ask your name or collect any information that could be used to identify you. You will remain anonymous.
Three of the questions we ask give us an idea about you and what region you live in. Your answers will remain confidential and we will not share your details with anyone.
When the survey closes in late September, I will collect everyone’s feedback and publish a report that will help government and other organisations understand what it is that you want them to know.
Survey closes 5pm WAST, 20 September 2024.
Thank you for sharing your views.
Jacqueline
Click here to take the Age of Voting survey
TEACHERS RESOURCES
This topic has direct reference to the WA curriculum under HASS ‘Civics and Citizenship’ and ATAR ‘Politics and Law’.
- Year 7 – ‘Designing our political and legal system’
- Year 8 – ‘Democracy and law in action’
- Year 9 – ‘Our democratic rights’
- Year 10 – ‘Justice at home and overseas’
- Year 11 – ‘Democracy and the rule of law’ and ‘Representation and justice’
- Year 12 – ‘Political and legal power’ and ‘Accountability and rights’
ABC Resources
abc.net.au/news/2024-04-04/push-to-lower-compulsory-voting-age-in-australia-to-16/103662980
abc.net.au/listen/programs/theconversationhour/the-conversation-hour/103475550
Behind the News – Lowering the Voting Age
abc.net.au/btn/high/lowering-the-voting-age/103660252
Make it 16
makeit16.au/
Parliament of Australia Voting Age Advisory Report
aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Electoral_Matters/VotingAge/Advisory_report/section?id=committees%2Freportjnt%2F024195%2F26301
The Conversation - Should the voting age in Australia be lowered to 16?
theconversation.com/should-the-voting-age-in-australia-be-lowered-to-16-208095
Museum of Australian Democracy – 1973 Lowering the voting Age from 21 to 18
moadoph.gov.au/explore/stories/history/lowering-the-voting-age
Download A4 poster