Secondary Rules

Hobbled by Hobbes

Episode Summary

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about voting rights under the Constitution (should 6-year-olds have the vote?), Prince Charles’ qualifications to be our next Head of State, and look at why Hobbes thought none of us can sleep soundly.

Episode Notes

This week on Secondary Rules, Joshua Neoh and Ryan Goss talk about voting rights under the Constitution (should 6-year-olds have the vote?), Prince Charles’ qualifications to be our next Head of State, and look at why Hobbes thought none of us can sleep soundly.

• Roach v Electoral Commissioner [2007] HCA 43

• ANU, "Experts call to lower voting age to 16"
• Runciman "Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six"
• "Votes for corporations and extra votes for property owners: why local council elections are undemocratic"
• "Donations scandals call into question judgement of Prince Charles"
• Hobbes' Leviathan (ch 13)
• "Thomas Hobbes" (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)

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