Telephone voting or ‘electronically assisted voting’ is offered by the ECQ during major elections.
Telephone voting opens at the same time as early voting. This is usually the Monday 2 weeks before election day.
Telephone voting will be open from 8am to 6pm AEST.
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Do I have to vote?
By law, it is compulsory for eligible Australian citizens, aged 18 or older, to vote at Queensland state elections, council elections, and state referendums.
If you don’t vote, you may be fined.
Queensland’s State General Election is on Saturday, 26 October 2024.
Postal votes can be applied for online at: https://www.ecq.qld.gov.au
Once registered for a postal vote, you will receive the postal vote form after candidate nominations close and ballot papers are printed.
It is anticipated that these … Read the rest
16 March 2024 Queensland Election:
The 2024 Local Government Elections will include elections for mayors and councillors in each of Queensland’s 77 councils. Election day will be on Saturday, 16 March 2024.
26 October 2024 Queensland Election:
The 2024 Queensland State Election is … Read the rest
Thursday, 14 December 2023.
Australia’s acting Prime Minister, Richard Marles, defended the government’s decision to call for a ceasefire in the Palestinian-Israeli war that the Palestinian government in Gaza started on 7 October 2023.
His comments included:
“We need to be moving towards a humanitarian ceasefire, which is not … Read the rest
QLD LGA Election 2024
Queensland’s 77 councils will hold their Local Government elections on Saturday, 16 March 2024.
The proposed 2024 local government elections timetable will be confirmed when the Notice of Election is issued.
The following dates are the preliminary planned dates:
The 2024 Queensland state election is scheduled to be held on 26 October 2024.
The 2020 Queensland state election was held on Saturday 31 October 2020.
This was a win by the Australian Labor Party (ALP), led by Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Enrolment: 17,676,347
These are the national results as at the time and date shown below.
9:40pm AEST 31 Oct 2023, from 15,891,552 votes, 89.9% of enrolment.
Yes: 6,284,838 39.94%
No: 9,451,188 60.06%
Informal: 155,526
The No vote has 53.5% of the electorate.
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The referendum “that Australia did not need to have” ended up dividing the nation, for no reason.
More than 60% of Australians have voted “No” in the referendum on Saturday 14th October 2023.
This referendum was asking for one answer to basically cover TWO questions.
There is actually a dispute over who the Australian head of state is.
Many consider it to be the Australian born Governor-General. Others say it is the current Monarch of Australia.
The Governor-General is chosen by the Australian government, not by the … Read the rest
