Will Sanders updates earlier work on participation and representation in ATSIC elections, adding analysis of the fifth round of ATSIC elections held in 2002. Will argues that overall voter turnout is reasonable given the voluntary nature of ATSIC elections. He discerns a distinctive geography of both voter turnout and candidate interest, which are higher in...

In a paper for the Democratic Audit of Australia, Olof Petersson (Research Director for the Democratic Audit of Sweden), writes that the fear of undue influence on voters is the reason why many democracies have discussed and quite a few have decided to regulate the publication of election polls. Yet such action raises several difficult...

The inquiry into the 1996 election by the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters reported that its 'most contentious topic' was that of electoral fraud. In particular, the enrolment procedure was seen as being open to abuse. In 2001 the Shepherdson Inquiry in Queensland indicated that the Commonwealth-State joint electoral roll can be manipulated due...

This paper has been prepared by the ABC's election analyst, Antony Green, as a final analysis of the 2003 New South Wales election. It includes details of the Londonderry supplementary election conducted on 31 May, final two-party preferred counts in every electorate, and an analysis of the distribution of preferences in the Legislative Assembly and...

ATSIC elections since 1990 have used the Commonwealth Electoral Roll as a large under-specified list of potential voters. Dissatisfaction with this arrangement within the Tasmanian Aboriginal community led to a trial roll of Indigenous electors being drawn up for the 2002 ATSIC elections in that State. Will Sanders discusses a number of contexts in which...