Since the early 1970s all states in Australia enacted legislation declaring that 18 year-olds were adults in all respects of the law. Yet, in 2009, the Rudd Government established Fair Work Australia in which all awards deemed that 18-20 year-old workers could be paid at Junior Rates.
It has taken 50 years now for the industrial relations system to recognize this fact.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-31/fair-work-comission-junior-pay-rates-retail-fast-food/106514948