The Australian Electoral Fee and its state counterparts should be pressured to vary voting guidelines after the South Australian election end result the place Labor claimed 72% of the seats within the Decrease Home from 37.6% of the vote.
This gerrymandering of electorates stored One Nation from successful much more that 4 Decrease Home seats. It ought to be famous One Nation was a detailed runner up behind the Labor Social gathering out-polling the Liberals in quite a few electorates.
Not solely does gerrymandering of electorates happen in SA however the newest instance is in Queensland the place the Liberal Nationwide Social gathering is attempting to gerrymander Katters Australian Social gathering out of parliament by recommending one in all its far northern seats, Hill, be abolished altogether, for the third time. https://cairnsnews.org/2026/03/14/redistribution-abolishes-kap-seat-of-hill-for-third-time-moving-it-to-brisbane-on-lnp-advice/
Pauline Hanson ought to keep in mind her ill-fated contest within the Queensland state seat of the Lockyer in 2015 throughout counting every day when she can be in entrance with postals, the subsequent day she can be behind, see-sawing till the counting stopped in favor of the LNP candidate by simply 180 postal ballots.
Right here is the story Cairns Information ran on February 15, 2015 simply after Hanson’s defeat:
Larger than regular postal votes in Hanson’s voters, Lockyer
· Loopholes within the legislation make postal voting frauds straightforward
· Every week after the election, some polling cubicles not but included
· Election consultants declare postal voting fraud is rife in marginal electorates
Pauline Hanson overwhelmed by 180 postal votes that stored arriving in mail till closing day of February 9. No submit marks are required by the Queensland Electoral Fee on envelopes containing poll papers.
Unusual patterns amongst postal votes within the Queensland State election are main some election analysts to suspect that Pauline Hanson (and others) are being unfairly culled out.
“We issued a media launch earlier than the Queensland election warning that Vote Frauds can be more likely to happen within the space of postal votes, as a result of massive loopholes within the recently-amended Queensland Electoral Act,” stated Mr Lex Stewart, President of Australians for Sincere Elections.
“We warned that the brand new ID necessities of sections 107 and 3A of the Act are ineffective in stopping vote frauds as a result of they don’t apply to POSTAL voters, the place no such id proofs are wanted! Whereas the Commonwealth Act requires folks to have a motive to use for a postal vote, we warned that part 119(1) of the Queensland Act permits anyone, together with false enrolments, to use for a postal vote with none motive in any respect!”
“The Commonwealth Electoral Act requires a postal vote envelope to be postmarked BEFORE the election, however Postal votes in Queensland may even be posted AFTER the election!!
“Due to this fact, the place a detailed contest grew to become evident in a seat on election evening, did we now have occasion hacks filling in Postal Votes on the Sunday and Monday after the election?” requested Mr Stewart.
NO conspiracy right here: ABC’s Antony Inexperienced
Voting figures from the Queensland Electoral Fee as at 4:13pm 6 Februaryhttp://outcomes.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/State2015/outcomes/district45.html present that Lockyer has a surprisingly excessive variety of postal votes, 3,225 which is 10.7% of the full votes, and in addition that the speed of casual voting amongst postals is quite low.
“Lockyer’s % of postals 10.7% is greater than the statewide common of 8.7%, but it’s a pretty small voters, solely 60km from north to south, and one would count on extra postals in bigger rural electorates, like Cook dinner in far north Queensland, which runs nearly 1,300km north to south, and has solely 801 postal votes, or 3.5%. – or has counting not completed but?” stated Mr Stewart.
“The Queensland Electoral Fee is negligent in that in Lockyer (and different electorates) not all polling cubicles have been included in web site figures every week after the election!!
“Pauline Hanson with 49.65% of the votes is operating neck-and-neck with the LNP at 50.35% however solely 59 out of 61 polling cubicles have (as at 6 Feb 4:13pm) been included.
“The place have the poll papers from these two cubicles been for every week? Who has had entry to them? And will they’ve been tampered with to the detriment of Pauline Hanson?
“Postal voting has lengthy been recognised as fertile floor for vote dishonest, and for that reason many nations all over the world don’t enable any postal voting.”
UK Election Commissioner Richard Mawrey QC (who despatched folks from each side of politics to jail within the UK for vote frauds) stated throughout his go to to Australia 4 years in the past that the ‘system of postal voting is a recipe for fraud … the system is extremely susceptible at various essential factors’.”
ABC’s closing election report Lockyer February 17, 2015 compiled by anti-voting conspiracy theorist Antony Inexperienced: https://www.abc.internet.au/information/elections/qld/2015/information/lock
Complaints about One Nation’s cartoon collection from the Bolshevik brigade in 2022 have been analysed with typical purple college jaundice: https://www.rmit.edu.au/information/factlab/one-nation-satire-disinformation
Labor received the 2015 state election and the primary piece of laws it handed within the new parliament was to repeal voter ID launched through the earlier time period of Premier Campbell Newman.
