PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA

 

Latest News:

 

Australia’s last provision for use of the undemocratic multiple majority-preferential electoral system, which was replaced for Senate elections in 1948, was removed when the NSW Local Government Amendment Act 2012 received Royal Assent on 2012-04-04.

 

Future elections in two-councillor Council wards will now be counted by the quota-preferential system of proportional representation, which is the counting system used for most NSW municipalities.

 

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New South Wales

 

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Tasmania

 

South Australia

 

Queensland

 

Western Australia

 

PR and its Importance

 

 

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Click here to hear Antony Green's 2011 Talk to PRSA on:

·          being in the UK during its 2011 electoral referendum campaign

·          outlook for the November 2011 New Zealand plebiscite on replacing its Mixed Member Proportional system

 

 

Click links below to hear Malcolm Mackerras's 2009 Talk to PRSA on:

·      why Senate above-the-line voting option should be abolished, and

·      NZ plebiscites on MMP with voters' choice of Hare-Clark or MMM.

(Read Mr Mackerras's article on NZ plebiiscite in November 2011)

 

History of the PRSA and its Branches, with links to many aspects of PR

 

Issues of the PRSA newsletter Quota Notes

 

Other Publications

Analysis of certain Federal and State single-member electorate elections

to show likely outcome under the more representative Hare-Clark PR system

 

Vote-counting Service for clubs, incorporated associations, etc.

 

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