PR for Victorian Local Government!
Our participation in the
local government representation reviews is reported briefly in
QN2005B.
Thanks to all those who have put in submissions supporting proportional
representation.
The rest of this page is somewhat outdated, for the lastes information
about local goverment representation reviews (including links to our
numerous submission), see the
VEC page.
The Victoria-Tasmania branch of the
Proportional Representation Society of Australia
is campaigning for
Proportional
Representation in all councils in Victoria.
Specifically:
- Multi-member wards or undivided municipalities with uneven numbers
of councillors to be elected.
- Quota-preferential vote counting.
- Casual vacancies filled by "countback".
- "Robson rotation" of candidates' names on balot papers.
- No group voting tickets or "above the line" voting.
- Marking of preferences greater than the number of vacancies to be optional.
- No distribution of candidate preference statements by the returning
officer.
The Local Government (Democratic Reform) Bill
is now available from the
government web site
(
this link may be more direct and allow you to save the file more
easily).
The main areas we suggest amendments are
- inclusion of the principle that all councillors are directly
elected (and not just the looser term "democratic"),
- ensuring there are an uneven number of vacancies to be filled in each
electorate, and
- Robson rotation.
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Last updated
Tue Nov 27 09:47:52 EST 2007