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Quota Notes is the quarterly newsletter of the Proportional Representation Society of Australia. The material is copyright, but permission to copy and distribute it is granted, provided it is not sold for profit and the attribution is included (the edition of Quota Notes, the name of the Society and the URL of our home page).

 

·         QN2011D, December 2011: [PDF – for printing]

o   Northern Territory Government Plan for Quota-preferential PR in Municipal Polls

o   NZ Votes to Keep National Party Government and MMP Electoral System

o   ACT Electoral Dangers Averted

o   South Australian Parliamentary Report urges Countback to fill Municipal Vacancies

o   National Office-bearers for 2012-13

 

·         QN2011C, September 2011: [PDF – for printing]

o   Disappointing 2010 federal elections report

o   UK Government proposes using Quota-Preferential PR in House of Lords reform

o   Antony Green speaks on UK’s referendum and NZ’s November 2011 plebiscite on MMP

o   Melbourne University abandons Nanson’s pioneering PR for a plurality system

o   Call for Nominations for Elections of the four PRSA Office-bearers for 2012-13

 

·         QN2011B, June 2011: [PDF – for printing]

o   Serious Assault on Countback in the ACT

o   NSW Legislative Council Controversy

o   Lopsided Aspects of Canadian Election

o   Tasmania’s First Countback since 2010 Polls

o   The Elections in Eire in February 2011

o   UK’s ‘Alternative Vote’ Referendum Failed

 

·         QN2011A, March 2011: [PDF – for printing]

o   State Elections in Victoria and NSW

o   Restoration in District Magnitude for Tasmanian Assembly has been deferred

o   May 2011 Referendum could replace UK’s First-past-the-post with Preferential Voting

o   Queensland Local Government Electoral Inquiry

o   First PRSA Honorary Life Members

 

            For the five years from March 2006 to March 2011, no issues of Quota Notes were produced.

 

o       Conservatives return to government in Canada

o       Prince Edward Island MMP plebiscite

o       Expanding Vote-counting role for PRSAV-T

o       Book Review: Ever Yours, C.H. Spence

o   New Zealand Electoral Referendum Approaches

o   Nominations for Election of National Office-bearers for 1994-5

o   Proposal for 2 MHRs per Division

o   A Record Early Start to the Senate Casual Vacancy Game

o   Activity in the A.C.T.

o   Thesis on Preferential Voting

o   Quota Notes Article Reported in the Senate

 

Number 31 was the first issue of Quota Notes as the PRSA National Newsletter.

The issues before that were Newsletters of the PRSA’s New South Wales Branch.

 

 

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