This report, by a group of experts and distinguished former world leaders, examines how to promote and protect the integrity of elections. Since 2000, all but 11 countries in the world have held national elections. Elections can further democracy, development, human rights, and security, or undermine them, and for this reason alone they should command...

Australia has required all eligible electors to enrol (register) to vote now for one hundred years. In recent years, however, changing demographic patterns and citizen mobility have made it increasingly challenging to maintain the accuracy and currency of the federal electoral roll. These same social trends mean that strategies such as habitation reviews which have...

Deliberative democracy can not replace representative democracy but it can strengthen it, providing a vital connection between participation of the relatively few and representation of the many, writes Graeme Gibson.

This paper provides details on women elected to Australian parliaments since 1921, in chronological order of election. This publication updates work published by David Black in 1966 under the title Women parliamentarians in Australia 1921–1996: a register of women members of Commonwealth, State and Territory Parliaments in Australia. Professor Black provided electronic copies of his...

The aim of this research was to examine approaches taken to social media by other government agencies and electoral management bodies in order to inform AEC participation in social media. The research focused on the key areas of development of social media policies that facilitate communication with the public consistent with public service values and...