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Oli MorphewOli Morphew

Oli Morphew is a year 11 student at Wellington Girls College. She is the national spokesperson for Make it 16 and is also an organiser for School Strike 4 Climate NZ.

A 14-year-old on how to rescue politics

19 July 2019 by Oli Morphew

When teenagers today are being called upon to solve the problems of tomorrow, why aren’t they given the right to participate in democracy? Fourteen-year-old Oli Morphew makes the case for lowering the voting age.  If you’re going to deprive someone of their rights, you’d better be completely assured of the reasons you’re doing so, and … Read more

Categories Featured, Politics Tags Make it 16, Voting, Young, Youth

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