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    • Election funding

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    • Register of political parties and decisions
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    • Transparency Register
    • Compliance and enforcement

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    • Electoral communication
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  • Learn about elections

    Delivering an election

    • Managing the electoral roll
    • Altering electoral divisions
    • Determining ballot paper order
    • Planning voting services
    • Counting the votes

    Voting and the Government

    • The three levels of government
    • When elections are held
    • Forming federal Government
    • Preferential voting
    • Referendums

    For educators

    • AEC for schools
    • Teacher resources
    • Professional learning for teachers
    • Conduct a school election
    • Community Electoral Education Kit
  • Information centre

    Electoral divisions

    • Find my electoral division
    • Current electoral divisions
    • Enrolment statistics
    • Maps and spatial data
    • Electoral division redistributions

    Elections and events

    • Past election results
    • Federal elections
    • By-elections
    • Referendums
    • Industrial elections and ballots
    • Torres Strait Regional Authority elections

    Transparency and integrity

    • Election safeguards
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    • Transparency Register
    • Electoral Backgrounders
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Special enrolment options

There are options for people with special needs or with specific circumstances that may affect their enrolment.

Special enrolment options
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  • Silent electors
  • General postal voters
  • People with no fixed address
    (homeless, seasonal workers or travellers around Australia with no address to return to)
  • Long-term travellers within Australia
    (who will return to their permanent enrolled address)
  • Living or going overseas
  • New citizens - 2022 federal election
  • People physically incapable of signing
  • Prisoners
  • Norfolk Island electors
  • Workers in Antarctica

See Also

  • I need to keep my address private, what can I do?
  • How do I view the Commonwealth electoral roll?
  • I’m a senior citizen, do I have to enrol?
  • I have a disability, do I have to enrol?
  • A relative has dementia. What should I do?
Updated: 11 April 2022

Other enrolment options

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  • Special enrolment options
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The AEC acknowledges the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters, culture and community. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

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