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Hereditary Relics Holding Back the AEC    (published: 5/2008)
   posted: 15/05/2008
Author(s): Peter Brent (Australian National University)
Category: - Audit paper; Electoral; Public service/statutory bodies
Peter Brent examines the regional structure of the Australian Electoral Commission and argues that the existence of permanent District Returning Offices is wasteful and is holding back the adoption of world's best practice enrolment procedures.

Hereditary Relics Holding Back the AEC   
   posted: 14/05/2008
Author(s): Peter Brent (Australian National University)
Category: - Audit paper; Electoral; NGOs/participation
Peter Brent examines the regional structure of the Australian Electoral Commission and argues that the existence of permanent District Returning Offices is wasteful and is holding back the adoption of world's best practice enrolment procedures.

Time to introduce automatic enrolment in Australia   
   posted: 18/02/2008
Author(s): Peter Brent (Australian National University)
Category: - Audit paper; Electoral; Accountability
With the Rudd government looking at making changes to the Electoral Act, the Audit’s Peter Brent places automatic enrolment as a high priority. In this paper, he highlights the mass of database information which the Australian Electoral Commission has access to, but cannot efficiently use for updating the electoral roll. Peter calls for the AEC to be given the power to update the roll automatically – doing away with the need for citizens to fill out lengthy enrolment forms.

The Democratic Audit’s Electoral Reform Agenda   
   posted: 18/02/2008
Author(s): Peter Brent (Australian National University), Norm Kelly (Australian National University), Marian Sawer (Australian National University)
Category: Accountability; Electoral; Incumbency benefits
The election of a new government means an opportunity to fix some of the things that have been going wrong with Australia’s electoral system. Australia has been making it harder to enrol and vote, and easier for private money to influence electoral outcomes.

Removing partisan bias from Australian electoral legislation – An Audit discussion paper   
   posted: 31/01/2008
Author(s): Brendan McCaffrie (Australian National University)
Category: - Audit paper; Electoral; Accountability
The ANU’s Brendan McCaffrie discusses a way of removing partisan bias from the formulation of Australia’s electoral laws. His proposal for an Independent Electoral Law Committee seeks to remove the partisan influence of the major parties from electoral law-making. Although the major parties may be loath to give up this control, there are international precedents, as McCaffrie discusses.

Informal voting at the 2007 election – Preliminary notes   
   posted: 31/01/2008
Author(s): Peter Brent (Australian National University)
Category: Electoral; Parliament; Rights
In this commentary piece, the Audit’s Peter Brent notes the decrease in informal voting (from 5.18% to 3.95%) at the 2007 federal election. However, the level of accidental informal voting still appears to be significant, and Brent identifies the relationships with different voting systems at the state level, as well as the level of non-English speaking voters.

2007 federal election - provisional voting rejection rates   
   posted: 20/12/2007
Author(s): Peter Brent (Australian National University)
Category: Electoral; Incumbency benefits; Rights
The rejection rate for voters who applied for a provisional vote in the federal election was far higher than normal, rising from about 50 per cent to about 86 per cent. The Audit’s Peter Brent comments.

The importance of boundaries    (published: 11/2007)
   posted: 2/11/2007
Author(s): Colin Hughes (University of Queensland)
Category: - Audit paper; Electoral; Parliament
Colin Hughes, former Federal Electoral Commissioner and Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Queensland, considers the issue of electorate boundary changes. The paper provides a comprehensive review of the 2006 redistributions in NSW and QL and summarises the history of redistributions in the two states. Hughes analyses the party political competition involved, even when the redistributions are carried out by independent electoral commissions.

Constitutionalising the franchise and the status quo: The High Court on prisoner voting rights    (published: 10/2007)
   posted: 19/10/2007
Author(s): Graeme Orr (University of Queensland)
Category: - Audit paper; Electoral; Rights
In the wake of the High Court’s decision on prisoner enfranchisement, Graeme Orr (University of Queensland) describes the issue of prisoner disenfranchisement as a continuing ‘political football’ in this new paper for the Audit.

Peter Andren: An independent way in Australian politics    (published: 8/2007)
   posted: 29/08/2007
Author(s): Tim Payne (Former Chief of Staff to Peter Andren MP)
Category: - Audit paper; Electoral; Parties/Independents
Following Independent MP Peter Andren’s announcement that cancer has forced him to withdraw from active politics, his former Chief of Staff Tim Payne reviews his parliamentary career.

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