A top clinical psychologist of adolescent development at the University of Oregon says there’s plenty of logic behind a new campaign to lower the voting age.

Nick Allen told Neil Mitchell there’s not much difference between the average 16-year old and 18-year old.

“There’s nothing magical that happens at the age of eighteen, if you look at the average 18-year old and the average 16-year old, they’ve got a pretty similar cognitive ability, they’ve got a pretty similar life experience,” he said.

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The Make it 16 campaign has received support from MP’s Monique Allen and Andrew Wilkie.

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