Victorian organiser for the Make it 16 campaign, Ravin Desai, has detailed why the voting age should be lowered from 18 to 16. Mr Desai is 17-years-old and says 16-year-olds are on the “same ...

Ravin Desai, year 12 student. Despite the increased incidence of mental health issues among young people – whom research has shown to be the worst affected in the COVID era, ...

Ravin Desai, one of the young people behind the Make It 16 campaign, pointed out that 16 and 17-year-olds already share many of the same responsibilities as adults.

Ravin Desai said this time will be different. "The last time this was debated, there was actually no national campaign formed by young people to actually reinforce the fact that we should lower ...

But as Ravin Desai, an organiser of the Make It 16 campaign, says, one powerful truth remains: “If the major parties choose not to listen to this call, they do so at their own peril.” Desai is ...

Calls to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 have been around for a long time. In fact, back in 2015 then-Labor leader Bill Shorten publicly backed the idea, saying if teenagers can pay tax, drive ...