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Each state has its own prisoner disenfranchisement thresholds. For example, prisoners in NSW and Western Australia serving a sentence of longer than one year are not entitled to vote in State elections. [54] [55] In Victoria, persons are struck off the electoral roll if serving a prison sentence of 5 years or more. [56]
Special rules apply to citizens going or living outside the country, [2] to military personnel and to prisoners, all of which do not reside at their normal residential address for electoral purposes. Homeless people or those otherwise with no fixed address have a particular problem with registration, not having a current address to give.
Electoral systems of the Australian states and territories are broadly similar to the electoral system used in federal elections in Australia.. When the Australian colonies were granted responsible government in the 19th century, the constitutions of each colony introduced bicameral parliaments, each of which was based on the contemporaneous version of the Westminster system.
Roach v Electoral Commissioner [1] [2] is a High Court of Australia case, decided in 2007, dealing with the validity of Commonwealth legislation that prevented prisoners from voting. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Court held that the 2006 amendments [ 4 ] were inconsistent with the system of representative democracy established by the Constitution .
From 1 October 2024, the role of Commissioner became treated identically to Commissioners of other frontline agencies, and is appointed directly by the Minister. Although commissioners have generally been recruited from other professions, both the incumbent and his predecessor began their careers as prison officers.
The prisoner population of NSW is estimated to rise to by 550 inmates a year to 16,402 within five years. [23] In response to prisoner number growth, Corrective Services NSW launched a $3.8 billion program for building new prison capacity in 2016. [24] The Incident Response Team (IRT) is the Riot Squad of Corrective Services NSW.
“This would include a right to vote for prisoners who are UK citizens,” it said. This report was released in February 2020, which is two months before Sir Keir Starmer became leader of the party.
Voting in federal, state and territory elections is compulsory for all persons on the electoral roll. [21] Voting can take place by a person attending in person at any polling place in their State on the election day or in early voting locations, or by applying for and mailing in a postal vote .