Australia up next: Federal election tomorrow

[Pemalite]

EricHiggin said:

Pemalite said:

Some people never mature.
I would trust some 18 year olds over some 50 years olds.

Sure, there are always exceptions, but would you trust a minority to Govern the Country? There are more older, mature, wiser people than there are young. Could always have another test for say, 18-21, where the minority who can pass it can vote earlier than the min age, of 21 lets say.

We have had minority governments before and the country plodded on just fine.

The independents and smaller parties tend to hold the balance of power, I.E. The greens which pushed for more housing and made a multi-billion dollar deal with Labor last election is one such benefit.

I would also argue the maturity difference between an 18 year old and a 21 year old is pretty minor. - 3 years isn't that big.

EricHiggin said:

Pemalite said:

I don't think we as nations are that far a part, we are both Commonwealth nations with strong European ties, history and ideals.

But where we tend to be a little different is that culturally Canada is more Americanized, where Australia is more British... Canada trades far more heavily (Or used to) with the USA, where Australia doesn't need the USA as we trade with China and Asia.

New Zealand to Australia is probably what Canada is to the USA I guess.

Maybe our Youth here needs to grow up pretty quick as everything tries to kill us the day we are born, it's truly chaos, death and carnage.

We're still similar, but Canada is more Americanized than most realize. It's part of the reason why some Canadians went so crazy as to the whole 51st thing. There's enough truth to it that it really rubbed them the wrong way because we're integrated enough that we're partially joined at the hip, so what America does, we're almost always tied to, to some degree.

Our youth, much like American youth, have been taught for generations now, not how to deal with issues and problems, but how to tattle and run away from everything. Heck, when running away became a problem because they were running into hard edged corners, our society decided we should start rounding and/or padding all those corners.

Sometimes walking away is the mature and responsible thing to do.

It shouldn't be frowned upon, every situation needs to be assessed for an appropriate response.