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Topic: Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories

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	Electoral Council of Australia - Electoral Systems- Voting Systems (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		All Australian Proportional Representation systems are STV types, although the South Australian, Western Australian and NSW Upper Houses and the Senate may be thought of as semi-List Systems as the ballot paper provides for above the line voting and left and right of the line in the case of Western Australia.
		The Electoral Council is a consultative council of Electoral Commissioners and Chief Electoral Officers from the electoral authorities of the Commonwealth, States and Territories.
		The ECA consults on the management of the electoral rolls for Commonwealth State, Territory and Local Government elections to maximise their accuracy and integrity and ensure efficient and effective roll methdodologies are implemented and considers matters which will facilitate or improve Australian electoral administration.
	www.eca.gov.au /systems/australia/by_category/voting_definitions.htm (561 words)

	Electoral systems
		Ostensibly, the prime requirement of an electoral system is that it enables the citizens of a nation to elect their legislative members and, in many cases, the head of state.
		Single-member electoral arrangements are typically based on the representation of particular localities, with the citizen easily able to identify his or her local member.
		The electoral system used to elect members of the Russian national legislature is such a system, for no provisions exist for representation to be adjusted to achieve proportionality.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/RB/2005-06/06rb10.htm (7406 words)

	DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURES — LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE AUSTRALIAN DIGITAL CADASTRAL DATABASES
		This paper uses the State of Victoria as a typical case to analyse the interaction of the forces that have shaped the development of SDIs in Australia, particularly the critical digital cadastral databases (DCDB), and to highlight some generic trends and lessons learnt in managing SDIs in the context of economic rationalism.
		The integrity of the cadastral system however was based on the individual accurate cadastral surveys and plans kept in the Land Titles Offices and those relating to Crown land kept in the Department of Lands or Offices of Surveyor General.
		The 1996 Australian Census was the impetus to overcome the technological and organisational barriers posed by eight state and territory cadastral systems to provide the first national DCDB product integrated with aspects of each state’s topographic data sets.
	www.geom.unimelb.edu.au /research/publications/IPW/DCDBLessonsFinal.htm (6347 words)

	Electoral Systems
		Finally, because electors do not have to rank candidates with numbers to express their second choice, TRS may be better suited to countries with widespread illiteracy than systems which use preferential numbering like the AV or the Single Transferable Vote (see Single Transferable Vote).
		The system places considerable pressure on the electoral administration to run a second election soon after the first, significantly increasing the cost of the overall election process and the time between the holding of an election and the declaration of a result; this can lead to instability and uncertainty.
		Lastly, PR systems often have a barrier to surmount because they are still unfamiliar systems to many countries with English or French colonial histories, and because some variants are seen as being too complex for voters to understand or for the electoral administration to implement.
	faculty.stcc.edu /zagarins/ritdienai/ACEengl/systems.htm (6026 words)

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	Politics of Australia - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		The government of Australia is a federation, and Australians elect state and territory legislatures as well as a bicameral Parliament of Australia.
		In the states and territories, elections are held at least every four years (except in Queensland, which has three-year terms).
		The proportional representation system allows these parties to win seats in the Australian Senate and in the state upper houses, but they have usually been unable to win seats in the House of Representatives (the Greens won a House seat at a 2002 by-election, but lost it in 2004).
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	Reform in the Australian Public Service 1983-1996
		Electors are required to rank candidates by order of preference, and a candidate must obtain an absolute majority of preferential votes before being elected.
		It stated that most departments had current industrial democracy plans, that consultative councils were well established in most departments, and that many agencies had recognized the links between education, training and improved consultation in the workplace and were devoting significant resources to industrial democracy training.
		Under this system a minister is empowered to adjust priorities and funding across the organizations within his or her portfolio.
	www.oag-bvg.gc.ca /domino/other.nsf/html/aus.html (18421 words)

	Australian Labor Party: Chapter Sixteen - Delivering Quality Government
		Through citizenship education and lifelong learning, Labor is committed to empowering Australians to understand the operation of our system of government, and to the need for ongoing constitutional reform to ensure that our legislatures are properly equipped to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century.
		Australians must be entitled to participate equally in the democratic process and in public life and administration.
		Labor supports constitutional reform at the Commonwealth, State and Territory level to remove the barrier on election to parliament of a person holding an office of profit under the Crown, provided that office is relinquished on election.
	www.alp.org.au /platform/chapter_16.php (3531 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)).
		The legal and governmental systems each inhabits are significantly different, as are their place and role in those systems.
		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.
	www-personal.edfac.usyd.edu.au /staff/souters/constitution/about.html (7628 words)

	Electoral Council of Australia - Electoral Systems- Australian Capital Territory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		AT the 2001 ACT election, funding of approximately $1.21 per vote was granted to parties and independent candidates that received at least 4% of the formal first preference vote.
		The ACT is unique in combining Local and Territory levels of government.
		The Legislative Assembly levels is elected to carry out all Territory and Local Government responsibilities.
	www.eca.gov.au /systems/australia/by_area/act.htm (188 words)

	The Australian Republic Issue: A Guide (Issues and Opinions)
		At the Australian Bureau of Statistics site, which in turn was a "reproduction of the summary report, under the same title, of the Republic Advisory Committee, subject to minor changes in presentation for the Year Book".
		In a parliamentary system, I think it is necessary for the head of state--being the umpire of the system--to have sufficient independence from the legislature and, particularly, from the government of the day.
		A parliamentary system, in my view, can't work unless the head of state, that is, the umpire in the system, has sufficient independence from the government of the day and from the legislature.
	www-personal.edfac.usyd.edu.au /staff/souters/republic1.html (12761 words)

	Audit Report - Corporate Governance in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		As the analyses reveal underlying dynamics in the behaviour of Australians in relation to broadcast services, the value of publishing reach and share trends would be enhanced by providing an account of such dynamics and of the ABC’s strategies in response to them.
		For it to maintain relevance for Australian audiences into the future, it must be in a position to keep abreast of technological developments such as multimedia and digital broadcasting and utilise the new technologies that audiences, as consumers, want to use.
		The ABC’s planning and management systems were under review, the ABC had a new organisational structure, and a range of new senior executives had been appointed to key positions.
	anao.gov.au /WebSite.nsf/Publications/4A256AE90015F69BCA256B9200042881 (14018 words)

	Table of contents for The constitutional systems of the Australian states and territories
		Table of contents for The constitutional systems of the Australian states and territories
		Table of contents for The constitutional systems of the Australian states and territories / Gerard Carney.
		Constitutional law -- Australia -- Territories and possessions.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002121.html (87 words)

	Elections - Key Internet Links
		Inquiry into representation of the Territories in the House of Representatives: tabled 1 December 2003
		The Australian Election Study from the Australian Social Science Data Archive (ASSDA): available for searching on NESSTAR
		Australian Government and Politics: A database of parties, elections, governments and representation for state and federal parliaments since 1890
	www.aph.gov.au /library/intguide/pol/polelect.htm (355 words)

	BookHq: Electoral Systems : A Comparative Introduction by David M. Farrell ( 033380161X )
		BookHq: Electoral Systems : A Comparative Introduction by David M. Farrell (033380161X)
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		The 10-digit ISBN# is typically found on the back of your book.
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