Voter Notes

Money is involved in electioneering. A lot of money! Political parties and organisations raise funds - they depend on donations. The Transparency register provides raw data, such as: $10,108,548 electoral expenditure by Advance Australia. That body received $13,459,036. The data is published by the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC). Here is a QR code to the page. I think it was created by Chrome - just came up as an option. (It worked OK as a test on my computer with my phone.) However, the direct AEC website has a lot more data and many options. https://transparency.aec.gov.au/ Entities involved in elections are required by law to furnish the information to the AEC. In my case there are no monies involved at all. Nil. I suppose I could put a price on my time (?) and device and ISP use(?). However, I do not see myself as a "significant third party". I do not seek to influence votes.  Yours sincerely Allen Hampton Coburg achamptonmob@gmail.com

Make no mistake, two deliberate murderers unleashed overwhelming hate on innocent people. They employed powerful weapons and turned the innocence of others against themselves. Death. They were resisted, and people suffered grievously for resisting. The heroes may make us all proud. Victims were powerless. Everyone there was their victim. The ripples spread out from the sadly lovely sands of Bondi.

The Electoral Matters Committee of the Victorian Parliament has tabled two reports which could lead to change. Could. The most recent report concerns the structure of the Upper House membership (the Legislative Council). The Government, through the Parliament, may hold a referendum for a change. May. Here is the report on the Upper House structure. https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/electoralsysteminquiry An earlier committee report (on the 2022 election) proposed change to Victoria's (now) unique voting method for the Upper House. The Government may propose legislation to remove "Group Ticket Voting". May. Here is the report on the 2022 election with the recommendation for change in the legislation:  https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/2022electioninquiry In brief Victoria has a Regional system of electorates for the Upper House. Electors vote for representation in their own region of enrolment. I think the theory is, that the voice of the rural areas will be heard. I do n...

At the moment the Australian Senate has extra prominence. The Government (based always in the House of Representatives) wants its Bill passed in the week ahead. That can only happen with support of sufficient Senators. (The Government do not have sufficient of their own party to pass the legislation.)

I have not used intentionally AI anywhere in this blog.  If ever I do use it (eg for image creation), I will say so. I suppose it is possible images I use from Unsplash or Pixabay may include AI, but I have not noted any acknowledgement in the ones I have used.

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