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Thursday, August 21, 2003

Australian electoral law: a stocktake

T his article addresses a number of key issues confronting contemporary electoral law in Australia. It demonstrates that Australian
electoral law is facing many of the same questions and problems that concern other nations, such as how best to regulate campaign financing, regulating ballot access, and what role the law ought to play in shaping the “internal” affairs of political parties.

· regulating ballot access [PDF::Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, University of New South Wales ]
· Prison sentence for electoral fraud seen by One Nation as a political milestone [SMH ]
· And please, let Pauline Hanson walk free. She's more innocent than our major parties by miles. [Webdiary ]