ED1231 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Postal Voting, Potato Chip, Student Council
Humanities Tutorial
The Electoral Commission – Guest Speaker
Nigel Bushby
- Talk about the voting process
- How to vote
o Learn it before we can teach it
o Do you really know what you are doing when you are voting?
Electoral commission at the constitution centre (Nigel’s Work)
- 1992
- Programs to do with voting, elections, and who we are voting for
o Close to parliament house and constitution
- Civics education
o Active citizenship
- Visits schools to do mock voting
o Audio-visual displays
o Present in class what they would expect at a voting centre
o Student council and prefect elections
▪ Contact Nigel
▪ We would like to run the election on this day, they design ballot paper, they print, and
come out to the school on election day
▪ Conduct the election for you
▪ Distanced from the counting of the results
• Parents may ask why their child didn’t win, you can say the electoral council
counted them
- Year 7
o New referendum program
Presentation
- We need to know who we are voting for
o Put their hands up to ask questions
- Questions
o ‘How many levels of government do we have in WA’
▪ Federal – Australia as a whole nation voting
• Nation every 3 years
o State every 4
o Local every 2
- Next election
o 13/3/2021
o Or can be called anywhere in the next 3 years
- Houses of parliament
o Legislative council – upper house
▪ 36 members
▪ Larger paper
• Top = political parties
• Bottom = Individual parties
• 97% of electors vote for the political parties up the top
o Easy
• 3-7% vote for individual candidates
o Ticket voting
o Making up your own mind in the preferences
o Legislative assembly – lower house
▪ 59 members
▪ Small white paper
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Document Summary
Electoral commission at the constitution centre (nigel"s work) Programs to do with voting, elections, and who we are voting for: close to parliament house and constitution. Year 7: new referendum program counted them. We need to know who we are voting for: put their hands up to ask questions. How many levels of government do we have in wa": federal australia as a whole nation voting, nation every 3 years, state every 4, local every 2. Next election: 13/3/2021, or can be called anywhere in the next 3 years. Poll on the same day of the week (saturday) since 1921. Before we vote: seagulls fighting over a potato chip, encouraging voters to vote for a particular candidate. Secret voting voting screens: australia victoria 1856, first country to vote secretly. Women voting: new zealand, 1896 first to let women the right to vote, game replies to the children in the accent of the country they got wrong.
