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Frustration for long-term residents over voting in election

Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten hands out how to vote cards at a pre-polling booth as part of the 2016 election campaign in in the suburb of Armadale in Perth, Tuesday, June 14, 2016. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

By 6 o'clock on Saturday evening around 15-and-a-half million Australians will have cast their ballots in the 2016 federal election. But there are potentially millions more long-term adult residents who will be watching from the sidelines. It has prompted calls for an electoral-law rethink to extend the right-to-vote beyond just citizens.


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By Gareth Boreham, Marijana Buljan

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By 6 o'clock on Saturday evening around 15-and-a-half million Australians will have cast their ballots in the 2016 federal election. But there are potentially millions more long-term adult residents who will be watching from the sidelines. It has prompted calls for an electoral-law rethink to extend the right-to-vote beyond just citizens.



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