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Footnotes

Chapter 1 Introduction

[1] Senate, Journals of the Senate, No 12, 14 May 2008, p 390.

[2] Senator Bob Brown, Senate Hansard, 14 May 2008, p 1778.

[3] Senator Bob Brown, Senate Hansard, 14 May 2008, p 1778.

[4] Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, Report on the 2007 federal election electronic voting trials: Interim report of the inquiry into the conduct of the 2007 election and matters related thereto (2009), Commonwealth of Australia; The 2007 federal election: Report of the inquiry into the conduct of the 2007 election and matters related thereto (2009), Commonwealth of Australia.

Chapter 2 Key issues

[1] Senate, Journals of the Senate, No 12, 14 May 2008, p 390.

[2] Senator Bob Brown, Senate Hansard, 14 May 2008, p 1778.

[3] Senator Bob Brown, Senate Hansard, 14 May 2008, p 1778.

[4] Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, s 211.

[5] Australian Electoral Commission, Electoral pocketbook: election 2007 (2009), p 55.

[6] Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, s 211.

[7] Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, s 211A.

[8] Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, ss 268, 269 270 and 272.

[9] Australian Electoral Commission, Electoral pocketbook: election 2007 (2009), p 55.

[10] Newman G, ‘Senate Group Voting Tickets’, Parliamentary Library Research Note 6 1999‑2000, viewed on 11 February 2009 at http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/RN/1999-2000/2000rn06.htm.

[11] Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, s 273.

[12] Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, s 273.

[13] Australian Electoral Commission, submission 169.1, p 23.

[14] Commonwealth Electoral (Above-the-Line Voting) Amendment Bill 2008, Explanatory Memorandum, pp 1 to 4.

[15] Commonwealth Electoral (Above-the-Line Voting) Amendment Bill 2008, Explanatory Memorandum, p 1.

[16] Senator Bob Brown, Senate Hansard, 14 May 2008, p 1778.

[17] Festival of Light, submission 67, p 8; Kilcullen R, submission 85, p 2; Lockett E, submission 175, p 4.

[18] Kilcullen R, submission 85, p 2.

[19] Green A, ‘Above or below the line? Managing preference votes’, viewed on 26 November 2008 at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3359&page=2.

[20] Lockett E, submission 175, p 4.

[21] See Green A, ‘Above or below the line? Managing preference votes’, viewed on 26 November 2008 at http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=3359&page=2; Brent P, ‘Above the line Senate Voting’, viewed on 26 November 2008 at http://arts.anu.edu.au/democraticaudit/categories/electoralfrm.htm; Sharman C et al, ‘Trading party preferences: the Australian experience of preferential voting’, Electoral Studies (2002), no. 21, vol. 4, pp. 543–560.

[22] Australian Electoral Commission, Electoral pocketbook: election 2007 (2009), p 18.

[23] Hon Peter Lindsay MP, Member for Herbert, submission 57, p 3; NSW Government, submission 161, p 2.

[24] Hon Peter Lindsay MP, Member for Herbert, submission 57, p 3.

[25] Queensland Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, Report on Queensland Legislative Assembly Electoral System (1992), vol 1, p 59.

[26] NSW Electoral Commission, ‘2007 Legislative Council results: Detailed results’, viewed on 26 February 2009 at http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/40379/Count_330_Excluded_CHESTERFIELD-EVANS.pdf

[27] NSW Electoral Commission, ‘2007 Legislative Council results: Detailed results’, viewed on 26 February 2009 at http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/40379/Count_330_Excluded_CHESTERFIELD-EVANS.pdf

[28] Wanna J, ‘Democratic and Electoral Shifts in Queensland: Back to First Past the Post Voting’, Democratic Audit of Australia, viewed on 26 February 2009 at http://democratic.audit.anu.edu.au/search_keyw_frm.htm.

[29] Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform, Report No. 2, The operation during the 1984 General Election of the 1983/84 Amendments to Commonwealth Electoral Legislation, Parliamentary Paper 1/1987, December 1986.

[30] Victorian Electoral Commission, Report to parliament on the 2006 Victorian state election (2007), p 96.

[31] South Australian Electoral Commission, Election report: South Australian election 18 March 2006 (undated), p 48.

[32] Australian Greens, ‘Submission to the Electoral Reform Green Paper’, viewed on 23 March 2008 at www.pmc.gov.au/consultation/elect_reform/pdfs/sub32.pdf.

[33] Bitar K, Australian Labor Party, transcript, 11 November 2008, p 10.

[34] Loughnane B, Liberal Party of Australia, transcript, 2 December 2008, p 6.

[35] Henderson B, The Nationals, transcript, 3 February 2009, p 10.

[36] Commonwealth Electoral (Above-the-Line Voting) Amendment Bill 2008, Explanatory Memorandum, p 1.

[37] State Electoral Office, ‘Submission to the [NSW Parliament] Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’, p 35–36, viewed on 26 February 2009 at http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/committee.nsf/0/6bd39b93036026cfca256fbf0017e89f/$FILE/SUB10%20-%20SEO.PDF.

[38] Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, The 1998 election: Report of the inquiry into the conduct of the 1998 election and matters related thereto (2000), Commonwealth of Australia, p 116.

[39] Electoral Reform Society, submission 94, p 3.

[40] Lockett E, submission 175, p 4.

[41] Lockett E, submission 175, p 4.

[42] Kilcullen R, submission 85, p 2.

[43] Bowe W, submission 106, p 3; Powell G, submission 96, p 2.