Sixteen and 17-year-olds can drive,work,enlist in the Australian Defence Force,yet they have no say in their own government. That urgently needs to change.
Lowering the voting age will be one of the first issues put to parliament in the new year.
Hopefully,the moment is ripe for leaders who move slowly and mend things.
It’s easy to be seduced by recent events,but the forces lined up against democracy are strong.
As recriminations over the Republicans’ midterm results continue,Trump is lashing out at anyone rumoured to be considering a run for the White House.
On the eve of the midterms,it’s a new low for the former US president who knows the House Speaker is already shaken by a violent attack on her husband.
Tuesday’s midterm elections will determine who controls the US Congress and in turn,the country. And Nevada could tip balance of power to the Republicans.
The outgoing Brazilian president didn’t comment on supporters’ calls for the military to overrule the election result.
The former US president says attacks will continue until elected officials from all sides condemn the extremism and conspiracy theories fuelling the problem.
I represented Lula when his political enemies in Brazil persecuted him. Now he has risen again to the presidency - and that is a victory against injustice and for all humanity.
Bolsonaro’s chief of staff said the president had authorised him to begin the transition process with representatives of leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.