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	2002–03 Redistribution of Commonwealth Electoral Boundaries
		Gorton—New division in the outer north—western suburbs of Melbourne.
		The new division of Bonner is a notionally marginal Labor seat (margin 1.9 per cent) but is compensated for by the fact that the division of Bowman changes from a marginal Labor seat (margin 1.4 per cent) to a notionally marginal Coalition seat (margin 3.1 per cent).
		Division is made notionally slightly less safe for the Liberal Party (margin reduced from 4.2 per cent to 2.6 per cent) with the loss of Liberal-voting polling places to Bonner (Mansfield 60.1 per cent, Mt Petrie 66.8 per cent, Rochedale 69.0 per cent and Wishart 60.2 per cent).
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/CIB/2003-04/04cib13.htm (3239 words)

	WAelectorats_change_sample
		Divisions in mid 2002 have a voter enrolment from about 74,000 to about 90,000; those divisions with the lower enrolments have the greater potential of increasing population.
		Because of this population dispersal city electoral division are small in geographical size and grow bigger in area the further the division is from the city and coastal areas.
		The metropolitan – urban electoral divisions number nine and it is suggested that Perth, like all present capital cities, be considered as the centre of business and commerce and has a single local government, one MHR and one Senator.
	www.bobbuick.com /2020_gov/create_local.htm (3025 words)

	House of Representatives Factsheet: Elections for the House of Representatives
		In choosing their representatives the voters, or electors, indirectly choose the nation's government, because the government is formed from the political party or alliance of parties (coalition) which has a majority of the Members of the House of Representatives.
		Australian citizens who are 18 years of age or older are eligible to enrol as voters.
		The Australian Electoral Commission, a statutory authority headed by the Electoral Commissioner, is responsible for the administration of all Commonwealth electoral matters including, for example, the conduct of elections, the maintenance of up-to-date lists of electors (electoral rolls) and the redistribution of electorates.
	www.australianpolitics.com /parliament/factsheets/08houseelections.htm (1404 words)

	Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Australian House of Representatives is elected from 150 single-member districts called Divisions.
		These maps show the Division boundaries as they existed at the 9 October 2004 House of Representatives election.
		For a description of how the House of Representatives is elected, see Australian electoral system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Australian_House_of_Representatives_electoral_Divisions (245 words)

	A parliamentary democracy - Australia in Brief - Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
		The Australian Constitution can be amended only with the approval of the electorate through a national referendum in which all adults on the electoral roll must participate.
		Any constitutional changes must be approved by a double majority—a national majority of electors as well as a majority of electors in a majority of the states and territories (at least four of the six).
		Australian voters choose among the candidates who are standing in their local division.
	www.dfat.gov.au /aib/country.html (1041 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 119 - Commonwealth electoral rolls held in Brisbane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Electoral rolls are used by researchers for a variety of reasons: to trace missing persons; to compile family history; to locate birth parents, or the whereabouts of anyone who has enrolled with the Australian Electoral Commission (CA 3854).
		Commonwealth electoral rolls for the state of Queensland are held for the years 1903 to 2003.
		Official rolls are copies of electoral rolls containing annotations made by the Australian Electoral Commission which detail changes to the entry for an elector – such as changes of address, changes in name, or the addition or removal of names from a particular roll.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/fs119.html (732 words)

	Behind the Scenes - Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Each electoral division has a permanent Divisional Returning Officer (DRO) who is responsible for electoral administration in his or her division.
		This was the result of the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment (Representation in the House of Representatives) Act 2004 setting aside the determination made in 2003, which saw the Northern Territory change from two electoral divisions (the Divisions of Lingiari and Solomon) to one (the Division of the Northern Territory).
		At the 2004 federal election, electors were electing 150 members to the House of Representatives, the same number as at the 2001 federal election.
	results.aec.gov.au /12246/introduction.htm (1099 words)

	COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918
		Certain particulars not to be included in reports Division 3--Electoral Commissioner, Deputy Electoral Commissioner and Australian Electoral Officers for States 18.
		Australian Electoral Officer for the Australian Capital Territory 31.
		States and Australian Capital Territory to be distributed into Electoral Divisions 56A.
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/legis/cth/consol_act/cea1918233 (1435 words)

	Systems and Pork Barrel Politics - Part 1 :: I n c i t e
		The result is that the electoral fortunes of individuals in America’s House of Representatives, especially in an era of anti-party voter sentiment, depend not on their party links but rather on their ability to build personal bases of voter support back home in their local districts.
		In closely drawn elections, one way for a party in government to maximise the electoral impact of its discretionary funds is to place them into the marginal seats of their party colleagues.
		This would allow the government to be able to point to appreciable sums of money having been allocated to their electoral opponents, while at the same time minimising the possibility that those funds would have a deciding impact on the seats’ electoral outcomes.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/Square/6130/olvol02/dave1.htm (1282 words)

	Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Australia - The House of Representatives
		The Australian House of Representatives is currently composed of 150 members chosen in single-member electoral divisions with approximately equal numbers of electors, using the full preferential version of the Alternative Vote (AV) system.
		Otherwise, the candidate polling the smallest number of votes in the division is eliminated, and the votes obtained by the eliminated candidate are transferred to the remaining candidates according to the preferences on the ballot.
		To illustrate the functioning of AV, the results of the November 2001 general election in the state of Victoria division of Melbourne Ports are presented here in detail.
	electionresources.org /au/house.html (540 words)

	State Library of Queensland - Electoral rolls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The State electoral rolls are held by the Queensland State Archives [new window http://www.archives.qld.gov.au/research/briefguides.asp].
		Electoral maps held at the Library show the names and boundaries of electoral divisions for each Australian State.
		Australian women who were British subjects and aged 21 years or older gained the right to vote in State elections in:
	www.slq.qld.gov.au /serv/fh/electoral_rolls (436 words)

	An anarchist anti-election campaign - 1998
		As the parliamentary stooges argue over their so called mandates and as the Australian Electoral Commission continues to count votes to determine the eventual electoral outcome, John Howard must be looking over his shoulder as seat after seat falls to the opposition parties.
		We are encouraging every Australian who is sick and tired of giving blank cheques to politicians to make decisions for them, who have decided not to support the status quo by not voting to wear a fl ribbon during the election campaign.
		Although I was threatened with legal action by the Australian Electoral Commission, they did not take legal action because they did not have the legal power to prosecute me. The campaign was successful, as the informal vote in Melbourne was double the informal vote in the rest of Australia.
	www.takver.com /history/elections/ami98.htm (5979 words)

	Research Projects - YES project - Centre for Research and Teaching in Civics - The University of Sydney
		YES is being conducted in conjunction with the Australian National University (ANU) and the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) and it is funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant with a total value of $AUS1.25 million.
		Working closely with AEC staff and using Australian Bureau of Statistics data in these divisions we have drawn demographic maps of the young people in them to determine factors such as ethnicity, income and level of education.
		In these divisions we have also conducted individual and focus group interviews with university and TAFE students, with participants from youth organisations and with various key individuals such as youth workers.
	civics.edfac.usyd.edu.au /projects_yes.shtml (1009 words)

	The Australian Constitution - Section 29 - Electoral divisions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Until the Parliament of the Commonwealth otherwise provides, the Parliament of any State may make laws for determining the divisions in each State for which members of the House of Representatives may be chosen, and the number of members to be chosen for each division.
		A division shall not be formed out of parts of different States.
		In the absence of other provision each State shall be one electorate.
	www.australianpolitics.com /constitution/text/29.shtml (86 words)

	The South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission
		The South Australian Electoral Districts Boundaries Commission was established in 1975 by an amendment to the Constitution Act of 1934.
		It is constituted of a senior judge of the Supreme Court appointed by the Chief Justice, the Electoral Commissioner and the Surveyor-General.
		The commission makes electoral redistributions - divisions of the State into House of Assembly electoral districts.
	www.seo.sa.gov.au /apps/news/?sectionID=13 (72 words)

	Australian Quotes & Notes - The Quotes - 1950 to the Present
		Extensive consideration of the problem clearly indicates that there is no one cause and we have discussed various relevant factors such as the previous preparation of students, the gap between school and university, the pressure of curricula, teaching methods, inadequate staffing and the absence of student guidance.
		Australian women embraced the contraceptive pill from the mid-1960s and they were in charge of their own bodies as never before.
		In the event of a successful introduction which may be made or arranged by you, and provided the interest for a term does not exceed eight percent per annum in total, we would be prepared to pay a brokerage fee of two and a half percent deducted at the source to you and/or you nominees.
	www.australianquotes.com /quotes_1950-present.html (18674 words)

	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 104 - Commonwealth electoral rolls held in Perth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bound printed electoral rolls are held for the period 1914 to 1989.
		Official rolls are copies of electoral rolls containing annotations by the Australian Electoral Commission which detail changes to the entry for an elector.
		Official rolls are available for public access once they are over 30 years old and provided they do not contain notations about electors which are of a personally sensitive nature (these could include changes of name of electors or some reasons for the exclusion of electors from the roll).
	www.naa.gov.au /Publications/fact_sheets/FS104.html (812 words)

	Electoral fraud affects results (3): Parliamentary Committee, June 2001
		The Liberal Party noted the comments of Mr Lloyd MP with regard to his electorate of Robertson in which Mr Lloyd estimates it takes an average of five months for the name of a deceased elector to be removed from the roll.
		Section 85 (2) also states that an enrolled elector shall not be required to complete a further claim for enrolment 'in connection with the preparation of a new Roll'.
		Regulation 14 provides that the Australian citizenship of a person applying for enrolment must be verified through several means including the provision of relevant documents such as a certificate of Australian citizenship or current Australian passport.
	www.multiline.com.au /~johnm/fraud3.htm (2719 words)

	Australian Electoral History
		Electoral Newsfile No. 117: Changes to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 since the 2001 election [September 2004]
		Electoral Newsfile No. 98: Recent Changes to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918: Summary of Amendments [October 2001]
		Electoral Newsfile No. 72: Electoral and Referendum Amendment Act 1998: Summary of Amendments to the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 [August 1998]
	www.aec.gov.au /_content/when/history/index.htm (151 words)

	Project on Parliament
		The shape and size of electorates is decided by the Australian Electoral Commission.
		Electoral boundaries for the House of Representatives are called federal electoral divisions, commonly known as divisions.
		Electoral boundaries for the Senate are called electorates.
	www.peo.gov.au /resources/homework/peo005a.html (291 words)

	BBC News \| Asia-Pacific \| 'Social divisions will continue'
		The proposed preamble to the Australian constitution was rejected in a separate vote during Saturday's referendum that saw Australians reject an proposal to replace Queen Elizabeth II as head of state.
		Aboriginal Reconciliation Council chairman Evelyn Scott said Australians must use next year's centenary celebrations of the federation of Australia's six states to address reconciliation.
		Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue said the vote against the preamble could be a protest against the lack of public consultation during the writing of it.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/508329.stm (403 words)

	Election 2001 - Direct Democracy not Parliamentary Rule
		I am planning to vote for the Australian Greens in both the Senate and the House of Reps. But on top of both ballot papers I will write something like “Tamper, Refugees, War; ALP that is $1.60 that you have lost!” And my vote will be valid.
		Finally, remember that we live in a country with 'free speech', except that under the electoral act it is illegal to encourage electors not to vote.
		I encourage Australian electors to consider my stand when they go to cast their ballot in the election.
	www.takver.com /history/elections/election2001.htm (2928 words)

	simon jackman’s blog » Australian elections database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Campbell Sharman and his crew at UWA have updated their on-line database of Australian election results.
		So let me say nice things first: it is wonderful to have an on-line version of the data we used to pull from the various editions of the Hughes and Graham Handbooks.
		Tracking vote shares over time at the level of electoral divisions or, even more fun, potentially, polling place is the Holy Grail, at least as far as I am concerned.
	jackman.stanford.edu /blog/?p=41 (237 words)

	Beyond the spin - the 2004 US elections - On Line Opinion - 2/11/2004
		The Electoral College and the Australian division of the nation into electorates acknowledges regional differences and the importance of keeping the focus of voting local.
		The most recent electoral “failure” in the US was of course the 2000 election that at the end of the day saw Gore with 314,175 votes more than Bush of the 104,262,331 votes cast - an “error” of 0.3 per cent.
		The complex Australian electoral system, designed to choose the winners in the districts, may in fact not work so well in the modern electorate in which the key matter is not the party in the district, but the national leader of the party.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=2702 (2254 words)

	Tangney, Dorothy Margaret - Australian Women Biographical entry
		In the Queen's Birthday list (8 June 1968) Dorothy Tangney became the first Western Australian born woman to be appointed Dames Commander of the British Empire for services to the Western Australian Parliament.
		An advocate for health and welfare, she served on the Joint Committee on Social Security 1943-1946 and served as a senator from 1943 until she retired in 1968.
		Dorothy Tangney featured on the 45c stamp (1973) and the electoral division of Tangney in Western Australia is named after her.
	www.womenaustralia.info /biogs/AWE0243b.htm (328 words)

	PRSA(Q) submission on PR for Queensland, File 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Indeed, some have argued that it is actually fairer to have electorates with fewer voters in areas where political parties win large majorities.
		It may be justified if an electoral system gives no seats to a party with few votes; but it is not justified if the system then awards a dozen seats to a party with even fewer votes.
		Under Hare-Clark, one seat in each multi-member electorate would be marginal among the parties, so that an election "could be decided anywhere and everywhere"; [28] the remaining seats would be safe for the parties.
	www.cs.mu.oz.au /~lee/prsa/earc/part1.html (5093 words)

	The Australian Federal Constitution: Net Resources (About)
		Proceedings and appendices (the latter consisting of speeches, letters, and assorted papers, as well as poetry, a manifesto, and the draft of a bill adopted by the convention (basically the one adopted by the 1891 convention but with various amendments; eg the Senate was to be popularly elected)).
		From an Australian constitutional standpoint, the most interesting section is the one where the appointment of Sir Isaac Isaac as Governor-General is slotted into the wider evolution of Empire to Commonwealth.
		Of the electoral divisions (aka electorates) of the House of Representatives, from Federation through 1997.
	www-personal.edfac.usyd.edu.au /staff/souters/constitution/about.html (7628 words)

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