Automatic enrolment in Victoria
Yesterday Antony Green posted on the Victorian government’s automatic enrolment legislation. This would go further than the NSW act as it gets youngsters onto the roll for the first time. Also in NSW, there seems to be a possible unspoken agreement to hold off on the publicity until after the federal election [...]
Automatic enrolment in Vic; Green preferences
Don’t know much about UK politics, but …
I know what I like reckon. Another observational post largely based on specific ignorance.
Electoral bias
Everyone is noting the electoral architecture favours the Labour party, that the Conservatives needed significantly more of the vote to overhaul Labour in seats. This time, the Tories got about the same vote as Labour did in 2005, but not nearly as many seats and short [...]
Electoral fraud in South Australia?
Every so often some attention-seeker puts their dog or something like onto the electoral roll and then brags about it. Ha ha – but they claim to be making a serious point, that the electoral laws are too lax.
Now an alleged whole family alleges they voted 159 times at this month’s SA election.
Well, someone’s written an anonymous [...]
Antony on electoral bill
In between preparing for Tasmania and liaising with South Australia’s “Mr Elections” Dean Jaensch, Antony Green has crafted some words on the federal government’s electoral bill. Close of rolls here and the rest here.
I’m largely with Antony. Close of rolls is, to (ahem) quote self, “like arguing over Beta and VHS when the answer is DVD.”
Antony loves Tassie
As you know, Tasmania and South Australia both go to the polls on 20 March. Faced with this choice, the Antony and Kerry show has opted to go to Hobart. Why?
The result down there is, in broad terms, almost a fait accompli: neither side gets a majority, Liberals with a plurality, we’ll have to wait [...]
Electoral fraud in McEwen and Chatsworth?
Brian Costar in Inside Story on two recent electoral court cases.
SA: Newspoll says 53 to 47; redistributions
In the Oz; tables at Newspoll.
As you know, since the change of federal government two years ago, every state/territory election has given big swings against incumbent Labor; only in Western Australia was it large enough to change government.
It’s South Australia’s (and Tasmania’s) turn in March 2010. Expect another hefty swing to Libs (very different expectation to last [...]
What is Australia’s voting turnout?
This is a thought bubble, emanating from the topic of automatic enrolment, which NSW is introducing and which, hopefully, we’ll have nationally one day.
One issue is that once you have a more comprehensive roll, the official turnout rate will drop, because many of those people who had never been on the roll will still not [...]
Antony Green on automatic enrolment
We interrupt this broadcast to inform you that Antony Green has posted on automatic enrolment in NSW. (Also here recently.) Antony explains it and goes through a few issues, for example a little bit of havoc in the NSW portion of the federal roll.
- Antony mentions last Friday’s JSCEM roundtable, which I attended as well. [...]
Automatic enrolment in NSW
I’m in Crikey today, chastising Bernard Keane for Friday’s rant against NSW’s move to automatic enrolment. Along the way I rather unfairly caricature him as being like the man at right.
This SMH piece by Ben Eltham & Miriam Lyons, on the other hand, is thoughtful, fair and wise. In other words, I agree with it (at least [...]