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A legal voting age is the minimum age that a person is allowed to vote in a democratic process. ... the voting age in South Australia was lowered to 18 years old in 1973.
The voting age, and consequential requirement to register, was reduced to 18 in 1974. In 1984, the criteria for the right to vote, and requirement to register, became Australian citizenship. Residents in Australia who had been enrolled as British subjects on 25 January 1984 could continue to be enrolled, without taking Australian citizenship.
In South Australia, ... (Reduction) Bill in October 1970, the voting age in South Australia was lowered to 18 years old in 1973. Queensland ...
As with the federal parliament and Australian other states and territories, voting in the Assembly is compulsory for all those over the age of 18. Voting in the House of Assembly had originally been voluntary, but this was changed in 1942. While South Australia's total population is 1.7 million, 1.3 million of them live in Adelaide. Over 75% of ...
Suffrage in Australia is the voting rights in the Commonwealth of Australia, its six component states (before 1901 called colonies) and territories, and local governments. The colonies of Australia began to grant universal male suffrage from 1856, with women's suffrage on equal terms following between the 1890s and 1900s.
South Australia: Electoral Commission of South Australia (2009) Lower house: All 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly (every 4 years) 19 March 2022: 21 March 2026: Upper house: 11 (of the 22) seats in the South Australian Legislative Council (every 4 years) Tasmania: Tasmanian Electoral Commission (2005)
Before 1970, the legal voting age was 21 across Australia, at both the federal level and in all of the states and territories of Australia.In that year however, the state of Western Australia lowered the voting age to 18, and New South Wales passed a law to lower the age, although it had not yet taken effect at the time of this case.
Victoria introduced compulsory voting in 1926, New South Wales and Tasmania in 1928, Western Australia in 1936 (excluding Indigenous Australians), and South Australia in 1942. It was introduced for federal elections in 1924 for British subjects aged 21 and in 1984 for Indigenous Australians. [52]