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Gina Dao-McLay

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Gina Dao-McLay is co-director of Make it 16, a campaign to lower New Zealand's voting age.

Students protest at Civic Square, Wellington, during the School Strike for Climate on March 15, 2019. (Photo: Marty MELVILLE / AFP via Getty Images)

It shouldn’t take a pandemic to give young people like me the chance to vote

The election delay means I'll have the right to vote this year, and I'm excited. But thousands more young people like me deserve the same chance to have their voices heard.

By Gina Dao-McLay | 18th August, 2020

Students march through the streets of Wellington during the climate strike. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images)

I’m 17 and I’m ready to vote. Here’s why I should count in this year’s election

Gina Dao-McLay from the Make it 16 campaign on why lowering the voting age could make all the difference.

By Gina Dao-McLay | 18th June, 2020