how do you vote if on holiday when it's voting time??

Mate i haven't voted till i was 30 or 33, if you miss one vote after all that surely they won't mind.
you could vote in absentia, i think it's called!!!!

Piece of cake. On the polling day( 21st August) drop into any polling booth and do an "Absentee Vote". All polling booths have a list of candidates for your "home" booth.

Early postal voting starts on the 7th August.

Beats me why the girl did not tell you this.

Phil

If you are in a largish regional centre on the day, you can do an absentee vote.

If you cannot do this, just wait to get you fine and reply that on voting day you were locqated in Woop Woop and the local polling centre did not have the facilities to lodge an absentee vote. If Woop Woop didnt have absentee facilities they will waive the fine

All the 'not home' voting options have their special regs (detailed on the AEC site) - seems your best option is the 'Early Voting' method - can be done in any AEC office from 2 weeks prior to election day. OTHER places that will also accept early votes are to be 'announced on the AEC site soon" - so I'm told by the AEC. I guess those extras places will be scattered across the nation - one would hope. Postal voting is ok, but like many you may have left home before postal voting forms arrive in the mail (that you could take with you). If it turns out to be totally impractical you can avoid the $20 fine by telling them the story when they hunt you down later :-o)...........

I believe you can also go to the post office now and do a postal vote.

Phil

I also will be in a remote interstate location on Polling Day and it is unlikely that Postal Vote papers would arrive at my home address before departure.

My plan is to apply for a Postal Vote but have it sent to me c/- of a Post Office along my itinerary and collect and lodge it prior to Polling Day.

I am leaving next week and will be in the back blocks of Eastern Russia on polling day. Looks like no voting for me this time :( but at least I miss out on all the inane TV adds :)

It's all clear if you go to aec.gov.au. This link will take you straight to the correct page.

Hi Chris

Under the circumstances, you should be able to get your name crossed off without getting fined.

If you apply for a postal vote and it doesn't reach you, they will send you a fine (but you can talk your way out of it if you're lucky). This happened to my sister and partner last federal election when they were in Bali with no postal delivery service. They proved they had done their best in applying for a postal vote the night the election was announced, and that they gave their full Bali address and the papers had not reached them (and never did).

For the WA state election 2008 there was a very short lead up time, and we were travelling the NT without radio or television. Talking to a neighbouring camper who was from WA we learnt about it, and he said he'd phoned the #13----- and been crossed of the list. When we got back to Alice Springs, i tried ringing the number but it was not active outside of WA. Election was eight days away. So late on the Friday i emailed the WA Electoral commission explaining that we had just learnt about the election and would be travelling west from Alice Springs and would be out of phone and internet range until we got well into WA which would be after the election. That's alright she replied promptly, you can vote in Darwin - and gave the address! Short of sending her a link to Google maps, i explained that Darwin was a long way away. She then asked for our full names and addresses so she could cross us off. Look at the start of this email. Oh, OK, you're crossed off. It should work similar with a Federal election.

Give it a go, and good luck.

Motherhen

having worked at elections my advice do a postal vote in your state. save sa whole lot of stuffing arouns

Gday Gonebush
There was a postal vote form in my letter box today, there might be one in yours in the next couple of days.
Murray

Apply to the Australian Electoral Commission to do a postal vote.

Just phone the office re: the Canidate you are going to vote for,they will bend over backwards to help.

PS. If you want to vote for me i'll be heading up the Caravan / CT / Camping / Occasional Beer /Wine drinking Camp Fire Party, just send a carton to me via Exploroz.

Cheers

hi, thanks for all the advice but, i can not do a postal vote because the girl i spoke to said that they haven't even got all the forms back from all the canidates yet so it will be at least 3 weeks before i can get the forms and we leave in 2 weeks. she did say that i could try to vote early at Roxby Downs while we are there but she doesn't even know if they will have their early booth open then, she didn't even mention getting our name crossed off the list, which really wont worry me if it was crossed off, it would save me the bother of choosing the best liar.
chris.