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• Electoral and Referendum Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  07 Mar 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration portfolio 

  Summary

  New bill 01023 but have loaded it under 01022 and written this little note 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment Bill (No. 2) 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 May 1998 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration portfolio 

  Bill

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2001

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Sep 2001 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Amendment Bill 1998

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 1997 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Administration portfolio 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral and Referendum Legislation Amendment Bill 2007

  Track (What's this?)

  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

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Annual Disclosure Equality) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: extend the application of the foreign donations framework to current sitting members of the House of Representatives and Senators; require members of the House of Representatives and Senators who receive gifts for the purpose of incurring electoral expenditure or creating or communicating electoral matter to lodge an annual return with the Australian Electoral Commission; and extend the period for which a person is taken to be a candidate by an additional six months for the purpose of the disclosure period for candidate and Senate group returns and for restrictions on receiving foreign donations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Assurance of Senate Counting) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: respond to a recommendation of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters'

  Report on the conduct of the 2016 federal election and matters related thereto

  by requiring the Electoral Commissioner to implement certain processes to assure the security and accuracy of the computer systems (including the systems for scanning ballot papers and counting votes) used to scrutinise votes for a Senate election; clarify the process for resolving candidate ties; clarify that the 'bulk exclusion' process is not required to be used in the computerised scrutiny process; allow a scrutineer to request access to an original ballot paper to resolve a question about formality or a preference vote being counted in the scrutiny of a Senate election; and require the Electoral Commissioner to publish Senate election data for each formal ballot case in the election within 7 days of the return of the writ for a Senate election. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: require registered political parties and disclosure entities to use their current registered name in authorisations for electoral communications; and allow registered political parties certain limited flexibility in how their present their names in an authorisation; and

  Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984

  ,

  Australian Broadcasting Corporation Act 1983

  ,

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  and

  Special Broadcasting Service Act 1991

  to harmonise authorisation requirements across broadcasting, electoral and referendum legislation, while retaining current authorisation requirements in relation to specified printed materials. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Candidate Eligibility) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Nov 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Not Proceeding 

  Portfolio

  Finance 

  Summary

  Responds to a recommendation of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters'

  Report on the conduct of the 2019 federal election and matters related thereto

  by amending the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to streamline the candidate qualification checklist relating to eligibility under section 44 of the Constitution and clarify when a response to a question is mandatory. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Electoral Legislation Amendment (Contingency Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Special Minister of State 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

  to: implement certain recommendations of the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters'

  Report of the inquiry on the future conduct of elections operating during times of emergency situations

  by enabling the Electoral Commissioner to make limited operational modifications by legislative instrument where an emergency declaration has been issued under a Commonwealth law and moving the existing power to adjourn or suspend polling at a polling place or pre-poll voting office from local polling booth presiding officers to the Electoral Commissioner; delay the commencement of the scrutiny for a House of Representatives election for a Division where polling has been adjourned or temporarily suspended; prevent scrutineers and Australian Electoral Commission officers from disclosing the results of a Senate election in a Division where polling has been adjourned; and make minor amendments in relation to the cut-off date for postal vote applications and the format of postal vote certificates. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum