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Quota Notes was 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). QN2006A, March 2006: 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 QN2005D, December 2005: Restoration of direct democracy vital National Office-bearers for 2006-07 Extending voter influence not a feature of federal electoral legislation First Woman Chancellor Heads Second German Grand Coalition Vale Rod Donald, NZ Electoral Reformer Victoria's Municipal Election Configurations QN2005C, September 2005: British Columbia: Speech from the Throne gives BC-STV Promise of Another Chance Small Shift in Japanese Voter Sentiment Translates into Hybrid System Landslide Victoria's First Use of Countback to fill a Municipal Casual Vacancy Labour Continues to Govern New Zealand for an Historic Third Consecutive Term QN2005B, June 2005: British Columbia Referendum: Over 57% Vote for 'BC-STV' - One 60% Hurdle Met Thanking Contributors to the PRSA's Donation to the BC-STV Campaign Call for Nominations for Elections of PRSA Office-bearers for 2006-07 Victorian Redivision for Upper House PR UK House of Commons Polls: May 2005 Submissions to Municipal Reviews Northern Territory Polls: Electoral System Severely Distorts Voters' Representation QN2005A, March 2005: AEC Fails in its Statutory Duty to Display Group Voting Ticket Pamphlets or Posters The Labor Party Achieves the First Majority Government in the ACT QN2004D, December 2004: Historic Canadian Moves Towards PR Results of our 2004 Federal Elections Tasmania's new Electoral Act 2004 Victorian Redivision for Upper House PR Catherine Helen Spence Lecture Series Two Unsatisfactory Polls in Queensland QN2004C, September 2004: Draft Bill for new Tasmanian Electoral Act Multi-member Electorate Symposium - Towards a Fairer Voting System for SA The Launching of Neil Robson's Booklet at Parliament House, Hobart The Death of Two Former Tasmanian Premiers The Unelected Senators Stay till 30th June QN2004B, June 2004: PM Admits Lack of Public Support for Change to Section 57 of the Constitution Law Amended to Set Aside an Australian Electoral Commission Redistribution Improved Transfer Value Proposed in WA Victoria's Municipal Electoral Systems Are Still Being Settled on a Case-by-Case Basis! Ending WA Malapportionment by a Federal Law Needs Further Work The 2004 Lok Sabha Elections in India Visit to Electoral Reform Society in UK QN2004A, March 2004: Section 57 of the Constitution is Not the Sole Route for Breaking "Deadlocks" A New Aid for PR Vote Counting Contributions by Members are Welcome Efforts to Improve ATSIC Election Scrutinies Book Review: Peace, Order and Good Government - State Constitutional and Parliamentary Reform QN2003D, December 2003: Federal Government Promotes Discussion of Altering Section 57 of the Constitution National Office-bearers for 2004-05 High Court Decision on WA Electoral Bills Greens Discussion Paper and their Bill for a Royal Commission on PR for the House of Representatives Northern Ireland Assembly Polls Show Much Hardening of the Main Opposing Viewpoints Synod Unrest Prompts Review of PR Law WA's Public Funding and Four-year Terms QN2003C, September 2003: Victoria-Tasmania Branch Efforts to Alert Councils to need for Hare-Clark Features Call for Nominations for Elections of PRSA Office-bearers for 2004-05 South Australia's Constitutional Convention Death of the Former National Treasurer of the PRSA, Len Higgs QN2003B, June 2003: Formal Proclamation of Upper House PR Victorian Focus now on Local Government Scottish Executive commits to STV-PR for future Local Government Elections Death of Two Veteran PRSA Members Canadian Interest in PR Increases An ACT Countback & The Redistribution Process Centenary Medal for Hon. Neil Robson QN2003A, March 2003: "Every Vote Will Shape Victoria" Victoria's Upper House is Reformed Threat of 6-Member ACT Electorates Averted QN2002D, December 2002: Constitution Commission Recommends Quota-Preferential PR for Upper House New Zealand's Third MMP Elections Produce a New Coalition Government QN2002C, September 2002: South Australia's Voters Lose Again The political wheel turns completely in Tasmania within 10 years Irish Coalition Government returned and main Opposition given a major drubbing QN2002B, June 2002: Submission to Inquiry into Appropriate Size of the ACT Legislative Assembly The 2002 Presidential Polls in France QN2002A, March 2002: Analysis of the 2001 Federal Polls Cleaning up Australian Politics Electronic Voting Theme of ACT Branch AGM QN2001D, December 2001: Victoria-Tasmania Branch Submission Received by Constitution Commission Neil Robson Promotes Hare-Clark in Victoria ACT Government Changes: Female Success Report from the Western Australian Branch Book Review: Elections - Full, Free & Fair National Office-bearers for 2002-03 QN2001C, September 2001: Constitution Commission Victoria Holds Seminar on Upper House Voting Systems Call for Nominations for Elections of PRSA Office-bearers for 2002-03 Submission to Victorian Government Review of Local Government Act 1989 Government Changes at the First Close Northern Territory Election Lopsided Status Quo Maintained after Record Low United Kingdom Turnout Public Meeting on a Municipality's Multiple Majority-Preferential System QN2001B, June 2001: Senate President Highlights 1949 Change to PR at Parliament’s Centenary Sitting New City of Melbourne Electoral System Ignores Tasmania's Electoral Experience Heated Differences about Integrity of Electoral Roll ACT's Electronic Voting and Increased Rotations 2001 Regulations Acknowledge PRSA QN2001A, March 2001: Constitutional Commission to Report on Victoria’s PR Bill WA and Qld Assemblies: An Absolute Majority of Seats from Minority Vote Two Very Different Approaches to the Filling of Casual Vacancies QN2000D, December 2000: Federation is 100: Links to Senate PR Independent MHR: Voting Reform is Urgent PRSA Submission on Enrolment Issues QN2000C, September 2000: PR for the Northern Territory - Real Practical Reconciliation Craig Ingram MLA Moves to Correct the Flaws in Victoria’s Bill for Upper House PR PRSA Submission to ATSIC Review Panel QN2000B, June 2000: Constitution Alteration (Proportional Representation in the Senate) 1999 Polls for London Mayor and Assembly ACT Branch of PRSA Remains Active PNG Electoral System Change Recommended PRSA Branch Structure Extends New Web Address for the PRSA Letter to the Editor: Scrutineers Vindicated QN2000A, March 2000: PRSA Works to Entrench Hare-Clark PR for Victoria'’s Legislative Council What Changes are Proposed? Deadlock or Democracy? The Future of the Senate’ Proposed Electoral System for Successor to A.R.M. QN1999D, December 1999: ALP Bill for PR for Victoria’s Upper House, but Voter Empowering Features are Lacking 50 Years of PR for the Senate New Zealand's Second PR Elections National Office-bearers for 2000-01 QN1999C, September 1999: Proportional Representation for the Senate: the 50th Anniversary! Call for Nominations for Elections of PRSA Office-bearers for 2000-01 NSW Branch Responds to ‘Tablecloth Ballot-paper’ and Threshold Threat QN1999B, June 1999: First PR Polls to Elect All of the UK’s Members of the European Parliament Concern by British Electoral Reform Society Members about Hybrid Option Local Government Electoral Laws ACT’s Hare-Clark Likely to be Strengthened SA Branch Treasurer Retires after 59 Years Northern Ireland’s Assembly Elections Inaugural Nunavut Assembly Elections QN1999A, March 1999: The Campaign to Discriminate Against Independent and Minor Party Voters The 1999 NSW Upper House Poll Unfair House of Representatives outcomes, so Australian Democrats float a Top-up Scheme QN1998D, December 1998: 1998 Federal Poll: PR Analysis Why do Parties Stage Manage Senate Tickets? Adelaide City Council Electoral Changes Jenkins Report: A Major UK Disappointment Europe: Lords Want Open not Closed List First-past-the-post Anomalies in North America QN1998C, September 1998: A One-day Sitting Cuts the Number of Tasmania's State MPs^M by Almost 26% An Exaggerated Parliamentary Majority Review of A.C.T. Governance Maltese Change of Government QN1998B, June 1998: VICTORIA - ON THE MOVE Analysis of the 1998 Queensland Legislative Assembly Elections Division into Two Classes of Senators after a Double Dissolution Northern Territory Statehood Convention European Parliamentary Elections Bill Vale David Bernard Vigor, former Senator for South Australia A.C.T. Polls: New MHAs, but Stability in Party Numbers QN1998A, March 1998: Proportional Representation at the Constitutional Convention Tasmanian Local Government Uncertainty Liberal Party Seeks Nominations for Tasmania's Legislative Council S.A. Polls: Comparing the Two Houses S.A. Municipal Electoral Systems QN1997D, December 1997: Controversial Restructure of the Tasmanian Parliament Stalemated? New Bill Should Now Make a PR Poll Possible in any Victorian Municipality Attempt to Alter Robson Rotation: ACT Branch Exposes its Flaws Australia's Record 15 Unelected Senators - 20% of the Senate National Office-bearers for 1998-99 Irish Elections Respect Voters' Wishes PRSA Members Assist Scrutinies Novel System for Electing Directors QN1997C, September 1997: First Address Ever to PRSA by an Overseas Government Minister Call for Nominations for Elections of PRSA Office-bearers for 1998-99 Constitutional Convention Proceeds Two Questions for Tasmanians? Lopsided Northern Territory Outcome QN1997B, June 1997: The Late Dr George Howatt A Constitutional Convention: To be or not to be? Two Houses of Commons: Each Is Now Dominated by a Single Minority-support Party Continuing Senate PR Dismemberment Kites Whither Tasmania's Legislative Council? Recent Achievements by PRSA Members QN1997A, March 1997: "Australia Consults" Forum on Electoral Fraud PRSA Conference Presence Winston Peters, New Zealand Deputy PM, to Address a PR Society Meeting General Elections for Both WA Houses Electoral & Constitutional Polls to Involve PR ACT Assembly Countbacks Queensland "Affirmative Action" Tasmanian Developments Port Lincoln Municipal Elections QN1996D, December 1996: "Proposition H": San Francisco Narrowly Loses its PR Opportunity PRSA Submission to Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters First New Zealand MMP Elections ATSIC Regional Council Elections Telephone Voting for South Australian Municipal Elections - by Key Entry Japan's Hybrid Electoral System Our 10% of Unelected Senators QN1996C, September 1996: Proposition H: San Francisco to Vote on PR vs. Single-member The First New Zealand MMP Election: 12th October 1996 The Citizens' Convention of 1997? PRSA Submission to Senator Minchin Joint Sitting to Re-elect a Senator of 11 Days Whistleblowing: The Need for a Non-Silent Minority ACT Electorate Boundaries Unchanged QN1996B, June 1996: What are "Mandates"? Revision of the PR Manual 1996 Senate Elections Senate Casual Vacancy Manipulation The 11 Commonwealth Parliament Members Unelected by the People Northern Ireland Peace Process Melbourne City Council’s PR Poll Tasmanian Assembly Elections Tasmanian Legislative Council House of Representatives Imbalances in 1996 QN1996A, March 1996: Federal Election Analysis: 1996 Formality Provisions at Polls for Australian Legislatures First ACT "Countback" Multiple Senate Group Voting Tickets Senate Party Boxes Candidate Surveys QN1996A Supplement: Proportional Representation Analysis: Australian House of Representatives Election 1996 Number 80, December 1995: Computerized Senate Scrutinies More Good News from the ACT PRSA Targets Discrimination Against Below-the-Line Senate Voters Western Australian Electoral Moves Parties Nominating More Candidates than the Number of Seats they Expect Information on Proportional Representation Three Bad Electoral Systems National Office-bearers for 1996-97 Number 79, September 1995: Queensland Branch Releases Draft Upper House Bill Call for Nominations for Elections of PRSA Office-bearers for 1996-97 An Elected Constitutional Convention? ACT Branch Consulted on Elections for Planning Advisory Committees ATSIC Review Panel Approves Quota-preferential methods No How-to-vote Material near ACT Polling Places Next Time? Number 78, June 1995: Address by New Zealand Cabinet Secretary on MMP's Likely Effects A Brief History of the PRSA Proportional Representation and Victoria's Constitution Victoria's First Public PR Election after Local Government Act Change Number 77, March 1995: Almost 2/3 Vote to Entrench the ACT's Hare-Clark PR Miss Enid Lakeman O.B.E. Morling Report Wants Tasmania's Hare-Clark Defended and Extended A.C.T. Poll Marks a Doubling of Australia's Hare-Clark Utilization Indonesia Reconsiders PR A.C.T. Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1994 DECLARATION OF RESULT OF REFERENDUM Number 76, December 1994 Hare-Clark Entrenchment Act 1994 Passes: A.C.T. Assembly Votes 16-1 AEC and PRSA Submissions to ATSIC Elections Review Panel LETTERS Proportional Representation (Hare-Clark) Entrenchment Act 1994 Number 75, September 1994 Do Hare-Clark Advocates Want Citizen Initiated Referendums? Submission to the Constitutional Centenary Foundation PRSA Approach to the Prime Minister's Civics Expert Group Mackerras Warns New Zealand its MMP will be Totally Discredited SA Branch Submission to SA Joint Committee: Women in Parliament Victorian Branch Deputation Meets the State's Leader of the Opposition Choices Made: Quota-preferential PR versus Other Systems "How Do Baptists Vote?" Number 74, June 1994 Hare-Clark Electoral Law Now For Two of Australia's Lower Houses! "Half by 2000" is Not a Fair Way to Represent Men or Women South Africa's Two Most Pivotal General Elections Filling Casual Vacancies after PR The Inquiry into the Composition of the Parliament of Tasmania News of Long-standing Members Number 73, March 1994 Keating Government Showdown on Senate PR Electoral System Public Sector Union Electoral System: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Clerk of the Senate Warns - Party Government: the Australian Disease From March: Hare-Clark for Many More Tasmanian Municipalities Tasmanian Board of Inquiry on Composition of Parliament Senate Casual Vacancy Procedure Is Still a Cause of Party Conflict Number 72, December 1993 Groom Government Attempts to Weaken Hare-Clark ACT Government Breaks Its Undertakings on Hare-Clark NZ to Abandon its Electoral System of Single-Member Districts Only PRSA Invited to Constitutional Centenary Foundation Forum ♫ ♪ ♫ “O Canada!” ♫ ♪ ♫ Real Choices/New Voices National Office-bearers for 1994-95 South Australia's Supposed "Landslide" Initiative for South Africa Obituaries Number 71, September 1993 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 70, June 1993 The 1993 Elections for the House of Representatives Western Australia's State Elections Andrew Inglis Clark's "Rosebank" for Sale Tasmania's Upper House A 10th Senator Elected by a Party Machine, Not the People Scylla or Charybdis? Italy's Lurch from Indirect PR to Relative Majority (Partly) Number 69, March 1993 New Zealand Legislates for the 1993 Referendum on its Electoral System Voting Information for the 1993 Federal Elections City of Melbourne Report Urges PR General Elections with Robson Rotation Number 68, December 1992 Is the House of Representatives an "Unrepresentative Swill"? PR Continues to Make Progress Notable Election in Victoria Threat of Indirect Elections in Victoria Strange Election Results This Year Death of Former ACT Branch Secretary Number 67, September 1992 NZ Electoral System Poll Chooses Change: Not Quota-Preferential PR Hare-Clark Book Launching Liberals Deprived in Queensland Constitutional Centenary Foundation Formed More About this Parliament's 9th Indirectly-elected Senator New International Body May Adopt Quota-Preferential Counting Number 66, June 1992 Official: Poll on New Zealand Electoral System in September UK Conservatives Nearly Missed Their Unearnt Majority of Seats ATSIC Casual Vacancies Properly Filled A 9th Senator Elected by a Party Machine, Not the People Honours and a Tribute Number 65, March 1992 ACT Voters Choose Hare Clark, Resoundingly! Tasmanian Election Shows-Hare Clark's Strength Hon. Neil Robson Retires Victoria Tries Again for PR in Local Government Another Indirectly Elected Senator New Zealand May Yet Have a Poll that Includes Direct PR Number 64, December 1991 The ACT Branch's Campaign for the Advisory Poll - How Is It Going? Neil Robson on ACT Radio Last National ACT Appeal Call before Advisory Poll Greiner Government Threat to PR in NSW Local Government National Office-bearers for 1992-93 Melbourne Synod Adopts a PR Electoral System SA Boundaries Commission Report Asian Interest in PR Grows Number 63, September 1991 Polls in Singapore's City State Show How Badly a Single-member Electorate System Would Work in the ACT ACT Appeal Reminder Nominations for Election of National Office-bearers for 1992-3 National Seminar of Independents and Balance of Power MPs Colin Ball Retires Local Government The NSW Branch's NRMA Campaign May Yet Bear Fruit Query by WA Readers Seventh Senator Not "Directly Chosen by the People" The Commonwealth Constitution's Protection of Direct Election of Individual Candidates at Federal Polls Number 62, June 1991 National Appeal for Campaign Funds for ACT Advisory Poll The NSW Cliffhanger Tasmania's Ultra-low-profile Upper House Elections Synod Initiates PR Bill Number 61, March 1991 SA Branch Raises PR Awareness in Referendum on the State Constitution D'Hondt Turbulence Continues in ACT Further Senators Elected by the Party Machines, Not the People Prince Charles Quoted on PR Lords Pass Bill to Extend PR Would a US Senate Elected by PR Have Voted the Same Way? Review of the Victorian Parliament Number 60, December 1990 EARC Report Gives Few PR Crumbs Submission Defending Robson Rotation South Australia: A Milestone in the World's Electoral History SA's Single-minded Referendum Death of Founding Member of ERSSA Victoria's Third PR Attempt The passing of the UK's Reform Bill in 1832 (attachment) Electoral Reform Society of South Australia: Annual Report 1990 The Passing of the UK’s Reform Bill in 1832 PRSA National President addresses PRSA(SA) on its 60th Anniversary and the 150th Anniversary of the First Election of Adelaide City Council (World’s 1st public quota PR poll) Number 59, September 1990 EARC Congratulates Queensland Branch on its Fine Submission The 1990 General Elections: Textbook Examples of Very Severe Misrepresentation of the Will of the People New Threats to Hare-Clark PR Society Notices Moves to Escape ACT Poll Referendum D'Hondt in any form unacceptable (attachment) Note that only some editions prior to this date are available online currently. Number 56, December 1989 PR Would Have Averted Qld. National Party’s Long Overdominance SA’s Vote-deficient Grouping Again Wins a Majority of Seats Liberals Committed to Hare-Clark for the Lower House Neil Robson’s New Proposals Review of Synod’s “Points System” PR Society Notices Melbourne Diocese’s Regulation of Elections Act 1980 (Points System) Points System Examples, from Enid Lakeman Number 54, June 1989 Hare-Clark Gives Electoral Justice in Tasmania A.C.T. Results Finalized Party Preselection for Single Member Electorates Further Contacts with Electoral Reform Society of GB & I Number 52, December 1988 A.C.T. Electoral Act Establishes d'Hondt Door Still Just Open in Victoria Prospect of a Tasmanian Branch Losing; Failing to Convert: & the Holding of Gains An impeccable electoral model (attachment) 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.
Number 30, June 1983 [PDF] National Conference Our Constitution The Australian Constitution The Australian Constitution – Another View Select Committee on Electoral Reform Gerrymander Wheel Annual Meeting Local Government
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