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• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Maintaining Address) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: allow the Electoral Commissioner to update an elector’s enrolled address following receipt and analysis of reliable and current data sources from outside the Electoral Commission; require an elector to be notified of the Electoral Commissioner’s intention to enrol them at a new address and give the elector the opportunity to object to the change; enable objection action to be discontinued and the elector’s enrolled address updated so that the elector is not removed from the electoral roll; standardise references to the Electoral Commissioner; provide for the Electoral Commissioner to delegate the power to seek information; and make consequential amendments; and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to prohibit the Electoral Commissioner from updating an elector’s address on a roll during the period from 8 pm on the day the rolls close to the close of voting at a referendum. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Provisional Voting) Bill 2011

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  Date

  02 Mar 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to provide that provisional voters are not required to provide evidence of identity. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Enrolment and Prisoner Voting) Bill 2011

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  Date

  24 Nov 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to: provide that the electoral roll closes seven days after the date of the writ for a federal election (

  Rowe v Electoral Commissioner

  [2010] HCA 46); prevent certain prisoners from voting at federal elections (

  Roach v Electoral Commissioner

  (2007) 233 CLR 162); and provide that certain prisoners may remain on, or be added to, the electoral roll;

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to provide that certain references still apply when a half Senate election is held independently from an election of the House of Representatives; and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to certified lists of voters for referenda. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (How-to-Vote Cards and Other Measures) Bill 2010

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  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to provide for: specific authorisation requirements for how-to-vote cards; and penalties for contravening the requirements; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to misleading or deceptive electronic advertising publications. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Modernisation and Other Measures) Bill 2010

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  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to: publishing enrolment and election-related forms and information about places to vote; electronic certified lists of voters; mobile polling; postal voting; eligibility for early voting; and technical amendments; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  in relation to: evidence of identity for enrolment; the age of provisional enrolment; roll information provided electronically to parliamentarians; electronically copying the roll; purposes for which the roll may be used; and enrolment for people experiencing homelessness. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Pre-poll Voting and Other Measures) Bill 2010

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  Date

  02 Jun 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  to provide that: pre-poll votes cast in an elector’s home division can be cast and counted as ordinary votes; the Australian Electoral Commission may process enrolment transactions outside the division for which the person is enrolling; and electors can update their enrolment details electronically; and

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to restrict the number of candidates that can be endorsed by a political party in each division. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Ministers of State Amendment Bill 2010

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  Date

  17 Mar 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Ministers of State Act 1952

  to: increase the limit on the annual sum appropriated from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the payment of salaries of ministers; and enable future increases to be made by regulation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Auditor-General Amendment Bill 2008 [2009]

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  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  In response to certain recommendations of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit report on the Auditor-General Act (Report No. 386), the bill amends the

  Auditor-General Act 1997

  to: clarify and extend the distribution of performance audit reports; provide for the inclusion of comments on proposed reports in final reports; clarify when audit information made available to entities and other parties in the course of a performance audit may be disclosed; clarify the powers of the Auditor-General when sensitive information is not to be included in a public report; and update penalty provisions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Freedom of Information (Removal of Conclusive Certificates and Other Measures) Bill 2008 [2009]

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  Date

  26 Nov 2008 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  ,

  Archives Act 1983

  ,

  Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975

  and

  Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security Act 1986

  to: remove the power to issue conclusive certificates; revoke existing conclusive certificates if a new access request is received; implement measures to protect sensitive information in proceedings before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal; and make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

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  Date

  30 Nov 2006 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  in relation to: trials of electronically assisted voting for sight-impaired people and remote electronic voting for defence members and civilians serving outside Australia; registration of certain persons as general postal voters; the deadline for postal vote applications; delivery arrangements for postal voting material; receipt of postal votes; establishment of pre-poll voting centres; proof of identity for enrolment from outside Australia; and defamation of electoral candidates and false statements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum