Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters
Inquiry into the Conduct of the 2004 Federal Election and Matters Related Thereto
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On Monday 10 October 2005, the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters tabled its report on the inquiry into the Conduct of the 2004 Federal Election and Matters Related Thereto entitled
The 2004 Federal Election.
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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 14 chapters, 1 dissent, 2 supplementary remarks and 8 appendices.
The 2004 Federal Election: Report of the Inquiry into the Conduct of the 2004 Federal Election and Matters Related Thereto
Preliminary pages (PDF 229KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations and List of Recommendations
Chapter 1 (PDF 551KB)
Introduction
Chapter 2 (PDF 286KB)
Enrolment
Chapter 3 (PDF 424KB)
Voting in the pre-election period
Chapter 4 (PDF 280KB)
Registration of political parties
Chapter 5 (PDF 360KB)
Election day
Chapter 6 (PDF 406KB)
Counting the votes
Chapter 7 (PDF 266KB)
Parliamentary terms
Chapter 8 (PDF 222KB)
Voluntary and compulsory voting
Chapter 9 (PDF 428KB)
Voting systems
Chapter 10 (PDF 314KB)
Geographical challenges in the modern age
Chapter 11 (PDF 249KB)
Technology and the electoral system
Chapter 12 (PDF 382KB)
Campaigning in the new millennium
Chapter 13 (PDF 328KB)
Funding and disclosure
Chapter 14 (PDF 229KB)
Looking to the future— education as the key to a healthy democracy
Minority report (PDF 295KB)
Mr Michael Danby MHR, Deputy Chair, Mr Alan Griffin MHR, Senator Kim Carr & Senator Michael Forshaw
Supplementary remarks (PDF 48KB)
Ms Sophie Panopoulos MP
Supplementary report (PDF 519KB)
Senator Andrew Murray
Appendices A - H (PDF 462KB)
- Submissions to the inquiry
- List of Exhibits
- List of Hearings and Witnesses
- Summary of the Minter Ellison inquiry and the AEC’s response
- Close of rolls enrolment transactions by type – States and Territories – 2004 Federal Election
- Schedule 4 & 5 from the Electoral and Referendum Amendment Regulations 2000
- Countries with compulsory voting
- Full distribution of preferences for the Richmond Electorate