Lowering the Australian voting age to 16 years old won't bear any significant political results, a study made by the Australian National University (ANU) showed.

In fact, it won't neither encourage young people to be more politically engaged nor would it create a fairer democratic system overall.

Professor Ian McAllister, author of The Politics of Lowering the Voting Age in Australia: Evaluating the Evidence, said that voter turnout actually was been seen to be at its' lowest among the youngest age groups. Voter turnout between the 18 to 20 years old bracket was only 71 per cent, while it was only 68 per cent between the ages 21 to 23.

Probably because it was during these ages that the young people gets to be given the privilege to do many things, such as driving a car and even getting the right to marry, making if suffice to say that voting is the least on their minds.

Australia wants to follow suit the seemingly global trend of lowering the appropriate voting age. Austria has done it. Scotland may follow suit for its upcoming independence referendum.

But Mr McAllister opined there was no enough available evidence to prove that young people became more engaged with the political process when the voting age was lowered.

"The argument for lowering the voting age to 16 is not well supported by the public," he said.

"It would not be a panacea for engaging younger people in politics to any great extent and it really wouldn't really affect the political process all that much."

"In terms of political interest there's been very little change over the past 25 to 30 years, which surprised me a bit because if you look at the expansion of tertiary education... to 30 per cent of the population, you'd expect young people to be more interested in politics, but in fact they're not," he said.