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Latest News
2010-03	Second indirect filling of a casual vacancy in Victoria’s Parliament since 1856: Nathan Murphy replaces Theo Theophanous
2010-02	PRSA National & SA Branch submissions to JSCEM inquiry into implications of the NSW bill on automatic electoral enrolment
2010-01	Submissions by PRSA (No. 98) & its NSW (No. 45) & SA (No. 79) Branches on 2009 Federal Electoral Reform Green Paper
2010-01	Victoria-Tasmania Branch submission to Local Government Victoria’s Electoral Representation Reviews consultation paper
2009-12	Victoria-Tasmania Branch President’s report to the 2009 Annual General Meeting of that branch
2009-08	WA Local Government Association succeeded in having WA replace its quota-preferential PR by first-past-the-post voting
2009-07	Letter in The Advertiser from ERSSA making the point that planned SA referendums should allow Lower House reform also
2009-07	South Australian Government’s referendums for a smaller, weaker Legislative Council, and for 4-year terms for MLCs
2009-05	British Columbia PR Referendum on 2009-05-12 reverses majority support of the 2005 referendum.
2009-04	100th Anniversary of the first Hare-Clark elections for the whole of Tasmania - on 1909-04-30
2009-02	Legislative Council Notice Paper for 2009-02-24 lists Motion No. 47 by Greens MLC Sue Pennicuik to introduce a Bill for an Act to amend Section 27A of Victoria’s Constitution Act 1975 to provide for a countback system for the filling of casual vacancies in the Victorian Legislative Council and for other purposes. [Notice given on 3 February 2009].
2009-01	The first indirect filling of a Victorian Upper House Casual Vacancy — since 1856 — which was by a Nominee of the ALP National Executive, in no way constitutes proper direct representation of voters.
2009-01	Western Australian Liberal Government plans to revert to the crude first-past-the-post system WA formerly used for municipal elections .
2009-01	See video and transcript of the case against the Rann Government’s apparent intentions to hold a referendum on the abolition of South Australia’s Legislative Council. It is the State Upper House that has used PR the longest. [The video, by the Public Service Association, is a 54MB .mpg file. It takes a long time to download to memory, even for broadband, but the transcript is quick]
2008-11	Tables show how nearly all the uncontested wards in Victoria’s 2008 municipal elections were single-councillor wards
2008-11	Electoral and review details for each of Victoria's 78 municipal councils, with links to each Council’s section of the VEC website
2008-10	What about the other low-vote senators? - Chris Curtis's letter in The Sunday Age corrects a journalist's mistakes about first preference votes.
2008-10	Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters of the Commonwealth Parliament in May 2008 by the SA Branch of PRSA
2008-05	Greens Party leader, Senator Bob Brown, introduces his Commonwealth Electoral (Above-the-Line Voting) Amendment Bill 2008
2008-02	Submission to the Electoral Matters Committee of the Parliament of New South Wales in February 2008 by PRSA(NSW)