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2023 News
2023-11	JSCEM's FINAL REPORT ON THE CONDUCT OF THE 2022 ELECTION: The Federal Parliament's Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters released its Final Report on this in November 2023. PRSA Inc's comments on it are here.
2023-08	PRSAV-T CASE TO VICTORIA'S ELECTORAL MATTERS COMMITTEE: On 11 August 2023, the President and the Treasurer of the PRSA's Victoria-Tasmania Branch appeared before Victoria's Electoral Matters Committee to put the strong case for discontinuing any above-the-line option on Victorian ballot papers, and for requiring Robson Rotation when printing each column of candidates' names. They also advocated filling casual vacancies by direct election, by prescribing countback. The PRSA case is consistent with its earlier written submission, and with the straightforward direct election of candidates that has long applied for the Assemblies in Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory.
2023-02	VICTORIA'S UPPER HOUSE RESOLUTION ON GROUP VOTING TICKET INQUIRY: The Age newspaper reported that, on 22 February 2023, Victoria's Legislative Council debated a motion by the Leader of the Greens Party, Dr Samantha Ratnam MLC, which was carried, asking the Labor Government to establish an Independent Inquiry into the Legislative Council's electoral system, as the Parliament's Electoral Matters Committee seemed reluctant to consider the matter. Liberal MLCs, including the Shadow Special Minister of State, Hon. David Davis MLC, supported her motion, although Mr Nicholas McGowan, a Liberal MLC, surprisingly suggested a first-past-the-post system, despite such a reversion to the pre-1920 era being likely to elect an absolute majority of Labor MLCs. Labor MLCs opposed the motion unfortunately, as there will be no Inquiry unless the Labor Government establishes one.
2023-01	ENACTMENT OF TASMANIA'S EXPANSION OF HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ACT 2022: On 14 December 2022 the above Act received Royal Assent, after gaining a majority vote in each House of Tasmania's Parliament. The PRSA wrote congratulating the Premier and the Opposition Leader after they had announced their parties' support for the Bill. It received a reply from each of them acknowledging the PRSA's support. Future elections for the House of Assembly will be for seven MHAs in each of the five Assembly districts, which will restore the arrangement that existed from 1959 to 1998.
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