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=== Australia === After Premier [[Don Dunstan]] introduced the Age of Majority (Reduction) Bill in October 1970, the voting age in South Australia was lowered from 21 to 18 in 1973. On 21 October 2019, [[Australian Greens|Greens]] MP [[Adam Bandt]] introduced a bill in the House of Representatives to lower the voting age to 16.<ref>{{cite web |title=Momentum grows for lowering voting age as Greens - local and national - fight for reform |url=https://greens.org.au/act/news/momentum-grows-lowering-voting-age-greens-local-and-national-fight-reform |website=The Australian Greens |date=21 October 2019 |access-date=21 October 2019}}</ref> A report suggesting that consideration be given to reducing the voting age to 16 in the [[Australian Capital Territory]] in [[Canberra]], Australia was tabled in the [[Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly|territorial legislature]] on 26 September 2007 and defeated.<ref>{{cite news|title=ACT to consider lowering voting age|publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)]]|date=26 September 2007|url=http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/26/2043628.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071206134008/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/09/26/2043628.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 December 2007}}</ref> In 2015, federal Opposition Leader [[Bill Shorten]] said that the voting age should be lowered to 16.<ref name="abc.net.au">ABC News, 31 October 2015, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-31/shorten-calls-for-voting-age-to-be-lowered-to-16/6901464 Bill Shorten calls for voting age to be lowered to 16]</ref>
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