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Australia

Year	Election type	Voting method	First year	Comments
1990	Legislative Sub-national Referendums	Personal Postal	1949	Personal voting was introduced since 1990. [Data has been reviewed in November 2019]
1984	Legislative Sub-national Referendums	Postal	1949	Postal voting in referendums were regulated in 1984.
1949	Legislative Sub-national	Postal	1949	A theoretical alternative date of the first year of external voting is 1906, but that may be practically misleading (see comments).