Do PR's vote?
Aug 5th 2004, 9:46 pm
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Do PR's vote?
Given that it's compulsory, will I have to chose between Jonny H. and some other bloke when I get there or not?
Paul.
Paul.
Aug 5th 2004, 9:51 pm
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No-one can force you to vote. To comply with legislation, all you need to do is turn up at the polling station, get your name ticked off the roll, take the voting paper and put it in the box, marked (ie having voted) or unmarked is your choice!
Aug 5th 2004, 9:54 pm
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Originally posted by ProofReader
No-one can force you to vote. To comply with legislation, all you need to do is turn up at the polling station, get your name ticked off the roll, take the voting paper and put it in the box, marked (ie having voted) or unmarked is your choice!
No-one can force you to vote. To comply with legislation, all you need to do is turn up at the polling station, get your name ticked off the roll, take the voting paper and put it in the box, marked (ie having voted) or unmarked is your choice!
Thanks, but do you know if this applies to permanent residents too?
Aug 5th 2004, 10:12 pm
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Originally posted by diddy
Thanks, but do you know if this applies to permanent residents too?
Thanks, but do you know if this applies to permanent residents too?
Depends ... see the following links.
Australian Electoral Commission
Electoral Commission Queensland
Aug 5th 2004, 10:22 pm
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by diddy
Given that it's compulsory, will I have to chose between Jonny H. and some other bloke when I get there or not?
Paul.
Given that it's compulsory, will I have to chose between Jonny H. and some other bloke when I get there or not?
Paul.
Simple answer.
No.
You have to be a citizen to vote. You have to have been resident for 2 years to apply for citizenship, so hopefully by that time you'll know the difference between Jonny H. and that other bloke.
Cheers,
JTL
Aug 5th 2004, 10:28 pm
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by JackTheLad
Simple answer.
No.
You have to be a citizen to vote.
Simple answer.
No.
You have to be a citizen to vote.
Not necessarily ...
The only non-Australian citizens eligible to enrol and vote at federal elections in Australia are British subjects who were on a Commonwealth Electoral Roll on 25 January 1984, at which time the eligibility requirements were altered. As there are minor differences in the eligibility criteria for State purposes, please check the enrolment form of the State for which you wish to enrol.
Aug 5th 2004, 10:45 pm
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by JackTheLad
Simple answer.
No.
You have to be a citizen to vote. You have to have been resident for 2 years to apply for citizenship, so hopefully by that time you'll know the difference between Jonny H. and that other bloke.
Cheers,
JTL
Simple answer.
No.
You have to be a citizen to vote. You have to have been resident for 2 years to apply for citizenship, so hopefully by that time you'll know the difference between Jonny H. and that other bloke.
Cheers,
JTL
Or better, will be saying Mark Latham and that other bloke!
Aug 5th 2004, 10:48 pm
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by jayr
Or better, will be saying Mark Latham and that other bloke!
Or better, will be saying Mark Latham and that other bloke!
Aug 5th 2004, 10:49 pm
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by ProofReader
Not necessarily ...
I reiterate my suggestion to visit the relevant websites.
Not necessarily ...
I reiterate my suggestion to visit the relevant websites.
Anyone younger than that (Hi
), does not. If you aint a citizen, you don't need/have to vote.Cheers,
JTL
Aug 6th 2004, 12:50 am
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by JackTheLad
Alright alright, anyone british, over the age of 38 needs to read the websites.
Alright alright, anyone british, over the age of 38 needs to read the websites.
Jeremy
Aug 6th 2004, 10:18 pm
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by jayr
Or better, will be saying Mark Latham and that other bloke!
Or better, will be saying Mark Latham and that other bloke!
Aug 6th 2004, 10:21 pm
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Re: Do PR's vote?
Originally posted by Siren
Dont you mean that Taxi driver basher!
Dont you mean that Taxi driver basher!
Aug 6th 2004, 10:39 pm
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British subjects voting in Australia
Since Australia Day (26th Jan) 1984, you've had to be an Australian citizen to vote in Australian federal ("Commonwealth") elections and any State election, thanks to the Hawke Labor Gov't which has followed usual Australian Labor Party lines of slowly but surely taking away and restricting the rights of British people in Australia.
However, if you were a British subject on the electoral roll of the Commonwealth up to that date, you still have your right to vote in Commonwealth and State elelctions
British subject is anyone from the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and other parts of the British Commonwealth.
Also, and thanks again to Labor, sice 20th ausgust 1986, British subjects could no longer apply for gov't jobs!
Gotta be Australian!
I wonder whether British subjects will still be liable for conscription into the Australian Armed Forces as they were in Vietnam, Korea, WW2 and WW1????
All the responsibilites . . . . none of the privileges!
However, if you were a British subject on the electoral roll of the Commonwealth up to that date, you still have your right to vote in Commonwealth and State elelctions
British subject is anyone from the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and other parts of the British Commonwealth.
Also, and thanks again to Labor, sice 20th ausgust 1986, British subjects could no longer apply for gov't jobs!
Gotta be Australian!
I wonder whether British subjects will still be liable for conscription into the Australian Armed Forces as they were in Vietnam, Korea, WW2 and WW1????
All the responsibilites . . . . none of the privileges!
Aug 6th 2004, 10:45 pm
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Re: British subjects voting in Australia
Originally posted by bob and ginnie
Since Australia Day (26th Jan) 1984, you've had to be an Australian citizen to vote in Australian federal ("Commonwealth") elections and any State election, thanks to the Hawke Labor Gov't which has followed usual Australian Labor Party lines of slowly but surely taking away and restricting the rights of British people in Australia.
However, if you were a British subject on the electoral roll of the Commonwealth up to that date, you still have your right to vote in Commonwealth and State elelctions
British subject is anyone from the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and other parts of the British Commonwealth.
Also, and thanks again to Labor, sice 20th ausgust 1986, British subjects could no longer apply for gov't jobs!
Gotta be Australian!
I wonder whether British subjects will still be liable for conscription into the Australian Armed Forces as they were in Vietnam, Korea, WW2 and WW1????
All the responsibilites . . . . none of the privileges!
Since Australia Day (26th Jan) 1984, you've had to be an Australian citizen to vote in Australian federal ("Commonwealth") elections and any State election, thanks to the Hawke Labor Gov't which has followed usual Australian Labor Party lines of slowly but surely taking away and restricting the rights of British people in Australia.
However, if you were a British subject on the electoral roll of the Commonwealth up to that date, you still have your right to vote in Commonwealth and State elelctions
British subject is anyone from the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Canada and other parts of the British Commonwealth.
Also, and thanks again to Labor, sice 20th ausgust 1986, British subjects could no longer apply for gov't jobs!
Gotta be Australian!
I wonder whether British subjects will still be liable for conscription into the Australian Armed Forces as they were in Vietnam, Korea, WW2 and WW1????
All the responsibilites . . . . none of the privileges!
Should've done it after WW2 when Churchill was ready to abandon Australia to save his own arse.,
Still, that's another subject.
Aug 6th 2004, 10:48 pm
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Re: British subjects voting in Australia
Originally posted by Ulujain
Australia owes Britain nothing and owes its people nothing in likewise. You're lucky Australia waited 84 years after federation to do what it should've done 1 January 1901.
Should've done it after WW2 when Churchill was ready to abandon Australia to save his own arse.,
Still, that's another subject.
Australia owes Britain nothing and owes its people nothing in likewise. You're lucky Australia waited 84 years after federation to do what it should've done 1 January 1901.
Should've done it after WW2 when Churchill was ready to abandon Australia to save his own arse.,
Still, that's another subject.
And after Australians and Kiwi's were used as machine gun fodder on the cliffs of Gallipoli...