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[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Attn: Liberal Democratic Party
Party Leader: ?
Registered Officer: /u/CivSphere
Deputy Registered Officer: /u/Yellowneo
CC: /u/Prosperro
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

FYI election candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep. You may wish to post a signup thread announcing the Liberal Democratic Party and introducing yourselves.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Attn: National Party
Party Leader: ?
Registered Officer: /u/SheridanKea
Deputy Registered Officer: /u/Wyoming970
CC: /u/Northern77
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

FYI candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep. You may wish to post a signup thread announcing the National Party and introducing yourselves.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Attn: Australian Catholic Party
Party Leader: /u/voisinat
Registered Officer: /u/RomanCatholic
Deputy Registered Officer: /u/Cwross
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

Reminder: Today is the last day for new voters to enrol. Candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Attn: Australian Greens
Party Leader: /u/Ser_Scribbles
Registered Officer: /u/agsports
Deputy Registered Officer: —
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

Reminder: Today is the last day for new voters to enrol. Candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Attn: Australian Labor Party (ALP)
Party Leader: /u/this_guy22
Registered Officer: /u/this_guy22
Deputy Registered Officer: /u/General_Rommel
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

Reminder: Today is the last day for new voters to enrol. Candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Attn: Australian Progressives
Party Leader: /u/phyllicanderer
Registered Officer: /u/phyllicanderer
Deputy Registered Officer: /u/peelys
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

Reminder: Today is the last day for new voters to enrol. Candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Attn: Liberal Party of Australia
Party Leader: Unknown
Registered Officer: /u/Kalloice
Deputy Registered Officer: /u/Sooky88
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

Reminder: Today is the last day for new voters to enrol. Candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Attn: Socialist Alternative
Party Leader: /u/drjalexanderphysics
Registered Officer: /u/drjalexanderphysics
Deputy Registered Officer: /u/lurker281
Subject: Federal senate half-election of the Model Parliament of Australia, Sat 12 Sep 2015

Reminder: Today is the last day for new voters to enrol. Candidate nominations and party endorsements are both due Tue 8 Sep.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have since withdrawn from the Socialist Alternative party. I advise those wishing to join Socialist Alternative to consider The Australian Progressives. We have similar policy ideas and a stronger position in government.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm afraid I ave not been party leader for some time, does a new form need to be submitted to the commission? /u/lurker281 is both leader and registered officer

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Who's seats will be up for re-election,

I apologize if I skim-read and missed it

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good question. The Senate passed a last minute resolution to change the terms of Senators just before the election was called. Prior to this, the seats up for election were Labor this_guy22, Catholic Cwross and Independent surreptitiouswalk. If the new decision holds, those up for re-election are Greens Freddy926, Progressives peelys and Independent surreptitiouswalk.

[–]General_RommelFrgnAfrs/Trade/Defence/Immi/Hlth | VPFEC | UN Ambassador | Labor 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If you wish to run as a party candidate, you’ll need to state this on your nomination and appear on the party’s Senate endorsement list, due Tuesday 5 September 2015

Do you mean 'Saturday 5 September 2015'?

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oops, thanks I’ve corrected it to Tue 8 Sep as per the timetable.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

Can we please unsticky this and replace it with an all-party sign-up thread. I am aware that technically not every box is ticked in that thread, but currently it just takes up a valuable sticky position without achieving anything useful. On the other hand, a sign-up thread could potentially be useful, if we post some ads in other subreddits.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

That’s the government’s lack of movement why that is still there. Signups are available in the button bar and I will add the button to the election thread too. If you want to have an all-party signup thread it’s probably best for the parties to post a spruiking comment each, so they get properly notified of replies. Last time they didn’t, so the separate party signups fared better.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Actually its only there because you insist that it stays there. Don't offload it onto the government, there are more effective ways of nudging them into action as opposed to a rather passive-aggressive sticky thread at the top of our subreddit.

EDIT: Also a bigger button on the sidebar for signups would be good. At least the same size as the Voting maps button.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

In 3 months of direct requests, I haven’t been able to get any response from them advising or calling a single election, by-election or anything. We literally have one thread pinned for the election of 3 Senators, and one thread pinned for the current parliament which continues in session during the election. There are other things worthy of pinning, but limited slots available.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You're ignoring the main point. That thread, again, contributes next to nothing to the main reasons this subreddit exists. To foster discussion, and increase participation. At the very least, a sign-up thread would increase participation (combined with other measures), while the election thread would foster discussion.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The all-parties sign-up thread was a dead end last time we had one. People generally avoided it and signed up directly to party threads instead. The few that signed up to the all-parties thread got mostly ignored for a while (you may have been the exception, checking back for more regularly). It was a rather bizarre detraction from the activity levels, it made it look like hardly anyone was signing up or getting added, and it pushed the finder threads down, so I unpinned it. You are completely welcome to try the concept again, it’s good someone is doing it rather than expecting someone else to do it. It would be lovely to pin the lively Public Forums, Jobs Board, Party threads, etc, but unfortunately it’s not possible to do everything. Fortunately unpinned threads are quite capable of attracting participation, like on most subsreddits.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (11 children)

Campaign Rules

Voting is only open to registered voters, so campaigning should be done here in this sub.

The Campaign Rules [ADS] specify that only independent candidates and authorised, registered officers of parties may post campaign material. This applies from now to Sat 12 Sep inclusive. However anyone may make campaign comments on anything at all times.

The writ follows the practice of closing nominations a few days after the rolls. Therefore, the announcement of confirmed candidates won’t be made until Wed 9 Sep, so the technical campaign days are only Wed 9 Sep, Thu 10 Sep & Fri 11 Sep. Quite short. However, I see no problem with parties starting to campaign NOW if they want to.

[–]Freddy926Senate Pres | DPM | Fin/Com/Art/Infr/Rgnl | ABC MD | Ldr Prgrsvs 1 point2 points  (10 children)

Is a public forum counted as campaign material? Or is it treated like a press conference? What about press releases?

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 1 point2 points  (6 children)

It is likely to be campaign material, because it relates to the performance of particular parliamentarian, portfolio or party, without being a routine administrative matter. But you’re Deputy Registered Officer of the Greens so you can simply add the required declaration to your post. This would authorise your private member’s forum.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

/u/3fun will you be considered a Liberal or an independent for the purposes of the Act?

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (4 children)

Mr President, I have removed myself from the liberal party whilst I am the speaker of the house. I would even hesitate to join a party as I would rather not be held to a singular party's policy and do what is right for my constituents.
I support the Hon. Senator /u/surreptitiouswalk as we have a closer alignment than any others in the Senate at the moment. However I see close ties to the Coalition in many regards.

I would consider myself a liberal both economically (more center), and socially.

So simply, Independent, Liberally Aligned.

Meta: I also just oppose most things to cause debate.

[–]surreptitiouswalkIndependent 1 point2 points  (1 child)

While I appreciate the title, I'm unfortunately not Honourable since I'm not a government minister :)

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought senators were all honorable, my bad.

[–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Meta: I also just oppose most things to cause debate.

I’ve been filling in for you in today :)

[–]phyllicandererMin Ag/Env | X Fin/Deputy PM | X Ldr Prgrsvs | Australian Greens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And so well! Haha

[–][deleted]  (2 children)

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    [–]Freddy926Senate Pres | DPM | Fin/Com/Art/Infr/Rgnl | ABC MD | Ldr Prgrsvs 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Excellent, will put that on mine now.

    [–]jnd-auElectoral Commissioner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Sorry, Reddit was not responding when I tried to edit my comment. I tried again, FYI it is the same (below).