Mature Australia Party

{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

{{Infobox political party

| name = Mature Australia Party

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| leader = Jim Savage

| president = Jim Savage

| chairman =

| general_secretary Rod Evans=

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| foundation = {{start date|2014|10|df=y}}

| dissolved = {{end date|2017|07|04|df=y}}

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| headquarters = Palm Cove, Queensland

| international =

| website = http://themap.org.au/

| country = Australia

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The Mature Australia Party was a minor political party registered for federal elections in Australia between 2014 and 2017.{{cite web |url=http://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registered_parties/mature-australia.htm |title=Mature Australia Party |date=15 April 2016 |access-date=17 April 2016 |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission}}

The Mature Australia Party (at that stage known as the Mature Age Party) had intended to contest the 2015 Queensland election, but was not organised in time when the election was called early.{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-07/mature-aged-party-caught-off-guard-by-qld-election/6004266 |publisher=ABC Rural |title=Queensland seniors political party unprepared for upcoming state election |date=7 January 2015 |author=Marty McCarthy |access-date=17 April 2016}}

In the 2016 federal election Mature Australia fielded two senate candidates in each mainland state, plus one in each of Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory. It also endorsed two House of Representatives candidates in Western Australia and one each in New South Wales and Queensland.{{cite web |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/election/candidates.htm |title=Candidates for the 2016 federal election |date=12 June 2016 |access-date=12 June 2016 |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission}}

The Australian Electoral Commission gave notice on 29 May 2017 that it was considering deregistering the party under subsection 137(1)(cb) of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 which relates to complying with notices from the Commission.{{cite web |url=http://aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/party_registration/applications/files/2017/deregister-mature-australia-party.pdf |title=Notice of intention to deregister Mature Australia Party |date=29 May 2017 |access-date=23 June 2017 |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission}} When the party did not respond to the notice, it was deregistered by the AEC on 4 July 2017.{{cite web|title=Notice of deregistration |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/files/2017-6251.pdf |publisher=Australian Electoral Commission |access-date=5 July 2017}}