2016 Report on enrolment to vote: Process in prisons and locked hospitals Executive Summary Justice Action (JA) has developed a set of proposals to improve current processes to ensure that those marginalised in prisons and locked hospitals are enrolled to vote. Ensuring the fulfilment of these enrolment obligations has been a focus of Justice Action […]
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ENROLMENT TO VOTE FOR PEOPLE IN CUSTODY 2019 REPORT Throughout the first two months of 2019, Justice Action has been ensuring that authorities are providing prisoners and mental health patients with the opportunity to enrol and vote in the upcoming election. This includes the Australian Electoral Commission, state mental health authorities and corrective service authorities.
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The Right to Vote for Prisoners Voting is a fundamental human right upheld in Australia through legislated compulsory enrolment since 1924. This process of compulsory enrolment demonstrates our nation’s hard fought dedication to achieving a democratic process that accurately reflects public opinion and values. In failing to ensure prisoners are enrolled in the voting system,
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Justice Action recognises that consorting laws represent a current issue that needs to be highlighted. Recently, the Justice Action team compiled a consorting paper to provide information to the NSW Ombudsman about the impact of the consorting provisions on prisoners, ex-prisoners and the services providing these programs. A case note analysing the High Court’s decision can
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“Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.”– International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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