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Inquiry into the implications of the Parliamentary Electorates and Elections Amendment (Automatic Enrolment) Act 2009 (NSW) for the conduct of Commonwealth elections

25 February 2010

© Commonwealth of Australia 2010
ISBN 978-0-642-79287-7 (Printed version)
ISBN 978-0-642-79288-4 (HTML version)

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Preliminary Pages (PDF 68KB)

Chair’s Foreword
Membership of the Committee
Committee Secretariat
Terms of reference
List of abbreviations
List of recommendations

 
Chapter 1 Introduction (PDF 102KB)

Rationale for the legislation
Key features of the legislation
Impact of the NSW legislation on existing electoral roll arrangements
Automatic enrolment provisions
Provisions enabling eligible persons to enrol and cast a provisional vote on polling day
Conduct of the inquiry
Structure of the report

 
Chapter 2 The issues (PDF 112KB)

The potential for elector confusion
Impact of the timing of the next Commonwealth election
Electoral roll integrity: the accuracy of data received from trusted agencies
Election Day enrolment
 ‘One roll, many elections’
Committee conclusions

 
Dissenting Report—Hon Andrew Robb MP (Deputy Chair), Senator Simon Birmingham, Senator Scott Ryan, Liberal Party of Australia; Hon Bruce Scott MP, The Nationals (PDF 132KB)

Exclusion or non-compliance?
Automatic enrolment—untested, unsafe, unnecessary
Election day enrolment
Inconsistencies should not be addressed with a flawed approach
Primacy of the Australian Electoral Commission
Inconsistency between the proposals of this report and the Electoral and Referendum (Close of Rolls and Other Measures) Bill
Conclusion

 
Appendix A – List of submissions (PDF 23KB)
 
Appendix B – List of witnesses (PDF 37KB)

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