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| 2016 News |
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| 2016-11 | JSCEM
INQUIRY INTO 2016 ELECTION: See PRSA
submission to this inquiry. |
| 2016-09 |
RICKY
MUIR: The talk by Ricky Muir,
Senator for Victoria 2014-16, at the
Victoria-Tasmania Branch 2016 AGM, and subsequent
discussion, can be heard here.
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| 2016-09 |
INQUIRY
INTO ELECTRONIC VOTING: PRSAV-T Inc. made a submission
to, and an appearance
before, this Inquiry by Victoria's Electoral
Matters Committee. |
| 2016-09 |
DIRECTIONS
FOR A NEW LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT: See the submission
on Victoria's proposed 'Directions
for a New Local Government Act',
particularly its DIRECTION 39, which is an
idiosyncratic variation of Tasmania and the ACT's
proven countback
system that will - unlike countback - be prone to
changing the balance of viewpoints on a Council
compared to that set by the general election. |
| 2016-08 |
SENATORS
DIVIDED FOR EXPEDIENCY: The Coalition, Labor, One Nation, and J
Lambie voted to divide
senators into long-term and short-term unfairly. None
of the 15 dissenters moved an amendment, as the Coalition did in 1987, to fulfil Section 13 of the Constitution by using instead the fairer method found in Section 282 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, but Senator Hinch did protest. |
| 2016-08 |
ENDING
'DUMMY CANDIDATE' PROBLEM: The Legislative Council disallows the
Regulation 38 that was
the main cause of Victoria's
'dummy candidate' problem. |
| 2016-08 |
MEDIA
RELEASE: PRSA National
President points
to self-interest once again deciding who
Australia's 36 long-term State senators will be,
despite a better option. |
| 2016-08 | ARTICLE
IN THE AGE ON THE
NEW SENATE: A good
article discussing Senate voting system
changes. The last 2 paragraphs suggest Hare-Clark as the
solution! |
| 2016-08 | THE
NEW SENATE SYSTEM IN PRACTICE: See article
in The Conversation on
how the new Senate voting system worked on its
first use, in July 2016. |
| 2016-06 | ABC
RADIO NATIONAL INTERVIEW ON SENATE VOTING SYSTEM: Hear the PRSA National Secretary explain on ABC Radio National the new Senate voting system. |
| 2016-06 | HOW
THE SENATE COUNT WORKS: See article
in The Conversation on
how the Senate vote count works. |
| 2016-06 |
MAKE
THE MOST OF YOUR SENATE VOTE: Click here
to read advice from the PRSA's A.C.T. Branch on voting
with the new Senate voting system. |
| 2016-06 |
PRSA
VIDEO ON YOUTUBE: The PRSA's 3-minute
video 'New Australian Senate Voting' explains
the improved Senate voting system. |
| 2016-05 |
CHALLENGE
TO ELECTORAL ACT DISMISSED: The full High Court, in
its judgement
handed down on 13 May 2016, unanimously
dismissed Senator Robert Day's bid
to have recent changes to the Senate electoral
system declared invalid. See
the Chief Justice challenge Senator Day's counsel
on his misplaced claim of 'disenfranchisement'
very soon after the formal day's opening on 03
May 2016. |
| 2016-05 |
SENATE
DISSOLUTION PROCLAIMED: The Governor-General's proclamation
of his dissolution of both houses of the
Commonwealth Parliament, dated 08 May 2016, will
result in a Senate election on 02 July 2016 at
which, for the first time since 1934,
voters can, under new
provisions, cast a formal ballot without
having to indicate preferences for more than 12
candidates, although the more preferences that
are indicated the more likely it is that the
ballot will not become exhausted. |
| 2016-04 | BACKWARD
MOVE: Queensland's minority Labor
Government has substituted full preferential
voting for
optional preferential voting in Queensland's
unicameral Parliament, with no prior
public consultation about this swift,
opportunistic and unexplained reversion. |
| 2016-04 |
PORK
BARRELLING: Accusations of pork barrelling - said to be a
particularly blatant example - have emerged against
one of the two Government candidates
in the forthcoming 2016 electoral contest for
Victoria's federal division of Indi. |
| 2016-03 |
SENATE ELECTORAL SYSTEM:
Article on The
Conversation
by the PRSA National Secretary on improvements to
the Senate electoral system now enacted. |
| 2016-03 | ATTORNEY-GENERAL'S
SECOND READING SENATE SPEECH: Senator Brandis detailed in this speech (See Para. 4 of Section 1 - Senate Voting) the Government's intention to move in the Senate an amendment to its Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016 to provide for partial optional preferential voting below-the-line at Senate elections. |
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NZ
USES PREFERENTIAL VOTING: New
Zealand's 2015 plebiscite to choose which of 5
flag designs will be pitted against its present
flag at a March
2016 poll has used the Single
Transferable Vote to determine a single
preferred choice, despite the use of plurality
voting in NZ's MMP system. The preferred alternative
design chosen in 2015 did NOT receive a plurality of the votes
cast. |
| 2016-02 |
SUBMISSIONS
TO JSCEM: See the PRSA
submission, and those by its New South Wales, Victoria-Tasmania, and South Australia Branches on the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016. |
| 2016-02 |
Article
on The
Conversation website
by the PRSA National Secretary on the changes to the
Senate voting system being proposed |
| 2016-02 | COMMONWEALTH
ELECTORAL AMENDMENT BILL 2016: The Bill,
with amendments, has been referred to the Joint
Standing Committee on Electoral Matters for
report by 02 March 2016, and the PRSA has been invited
to lodge a submission. See also the revised
Explanatory Memorandum. |
| 2016-02 |
OPPOSITION
TO SENATOR NICK XENOPHON'S BILL TO ALTER THE SENATE
ELECTORAL SYSTEM: See the responses by the PRSA and Malcolm Mackerras. |
| 2016-01 | CALL
FOR HIGH COURT TO RECONSIDER THE 1984 McKENZIE CASE Malcolm Mackerras has called for the court to reconsider Group Voting Ticket law. |
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