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See PRSA submission to this inquiry. автокредит выгодные условия

The talk by Ricky Muir, Senator for Victoria 2014-16, at the Victoria-Tasmania Branch 2016 AGM, and discussion on it, can be heard here. банки партнеры список

PRSAV-T Inc. made a submission to, and an appearance before, this Inquiry by Victoria’s Electoral Matters Committee. взять кредит на карту без отказа

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. в каком банке оформить кредитную карту

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. дебетовая карта с кэшбэком

The Legislative Council disallows the Regulation 38 that was the main cause of Victoria’s ‘dummy candidate’ problem. выгодный кредит на квартиру

PRSA National President points to self-interest once again deciding who Australia’s 36 long-term State senators will be, despite a better option. все мфо в россии дающие займ через интернет на карту список

A good article discussing Senate voting system changes. The last 2 paragraphs suggest Hare-Clark as the solution!

See article in The Conversation on how the new Senate voting system worked on its first use, in July 2016.

Hear the PRSA National Secretary explain on ABC Radio National the new Senate voting system.

See article in The Conversation on how the Senate vote count works.

Click here to read advice from the PRSA’s ACT Branch on voting with the new Senate voting system.

The PRSA’s 3-minute video ‘New Australian Senate Voting’ explains the improved Senate voting system.

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.

The Governor-General’s proclamation of his dissolution of both houses of the Commonwealth Parliamencauset, on 08 May 2016, will  a Senate election on 02 July 2016 where, 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.

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.

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.

Article on The Conversation by the PRSA National Secretary on improvements to the Senate electoral system now enacted.

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.

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.

See the PRSA submission, and those by its New South Wales, Victoria-Tasmania, and South Australia Branches on the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Bill 2016.

Article on The Conversation website by the PRSA National Secretary on the changes to the Senate voting system being proposed.

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.

See the responses by the PRSA and Malcolm Mackerras OA.

Malcolm Mackerras AO has called for the court to reconsider Group Voting Ticket law.