Voting NSW

2023 - 3 - 18

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Aussies slam 'discriminatory' voting change (NEWS.com.au)

Vulnerable Australians with vision impairments have shared their furore over the 'discriminatory' scrapping of iVote. Jessica Wang. 2 min read.

is discriminatory and denies us of our right to participate fully and equally in the electoral process,” she said. The Commission has commenced a review into technology-assisted voting, with input from advocacy groups like BCA, Vision Australia and Guide Dogs NSW. “The Electoral Commissioner determined this timing posed unacceptable risks to the conduct of the 2023 State election,” they said.

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First votes to be cast in NSW election (NEWS.com.au)

The first votes in the NSW state election will be cast on Saturday, a week before the official election which will determine who will govern Australia's ...

Or whether to cast their vote for a minor party or independent. For Mr Minns to lead Labor to a long-awaited win, the party needs to retain their current 38 seats, and add a further nine to be able to govern with a majority government. The first votes in the NSW state election will be cast on Saturday, a week before the official election which will determine who will govern Australia’s biggest state for the next four years.

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Early voting open with NSW elections a week away (The Maitland Mercury)

Polling booths around NSW will be a hive of democratic activity in the coming week with voters eligible...

Why would the people of this state expect the next four years to be any different?," Mr Minns told reporters on Saturday. "Labor has made a decision in a limited number of seats to support parties and candidates who have got the best chance of blocking that majority". "The government has had 12 years to fix schools in NSW but there's not the classrooms and there's not the teachers. "For the prime minister to come out yesterday and say that he's against, like NSW Labor, setting up a future fund account for our children shows how out of touch he is with the challenges that families are facing today" Meanwhile, new figures from the Department of Education show the number of demountables used as classrooms spiked to 5093 in April last year, which Labor has seized on as a demonstration of the government's underfunding of public schools. Mr Perrottet, who has previously been complimentary about working with Mr Albanese on national cabinet issues, lashed out on Saturday saying "he (the prime minister) is absolutely wrong and that is the Labor way".

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Early voting in NSW Election begins Saturday March 18 (Port Macquarie News)

Early voting centres will be located in Port Macquarie, Wauchope and Laurieton. Port Macquarie early voting centres: Grace Church Port Macquarie, 2 Kingfisher ...

Wauchope early voting centre: Laurieton early voting centre: Port Macquarie early voting centres: Port Macquarie CWA Hall, 11 Horton Street, Port Macquarie Port Macquarie Guide Hall, Hollingworth Street, Port Macquarie Early voting centres will be located in Port Macquarie, Wauchope and Laurieton.

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Early voting opens ahead of NSW election (Brisbane Times)

Today marks one week until NSW heads to the polls for the state election as early voting centres open.

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Early voting opens as parties take campaigns to western Sydney (The Sydney Morning Herald)

Premier Dominic Perrottet and Opposition Leader Chris Minns campaigned in a hot western Sydney on Saturday, a week out from the NSW election.

He urged parents sick of their children learning in demountables to “vote for change”. [Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter here](/link/follow-20170101-p5apym). “I’ll leave it up to the Liberal Party to make their own decisions about who they campaign with, but, in the last week? However, he was unable to provide specifics on how many demountable classrooms Labor would eliminate. “We would love to have [Dutton] in NSW. Minns sat in on a lesson in a demountable classroom at the centre, which runs out of Girraween Public School on Saturdays and is one of the largest community language schools in the state.

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Climate 200 accused of 'push polling' in key Sydney seat ahead of ... (The Guardian)

Exclusive: fundraising group defends telephone polling after complaint by NSW Liberal party director.

A Climate 200 spokesperson said it was a “widely used and accepted polling technique” and confirmed Conway’s camp was not involved. “Authentic, high-profile endorsements of independent candidates helps boost their chances of success,” the Climate 200 spokesperson said. “This behaviour makes a complete mockery of Climate 200 teal independents’ claims that they stand for integrity and positive politics,” she said. We can’t afford to poll. “We don’t poll. “It is polling, but it’s testing messages that might also have the effect of spreading a view about a candidate,” he said.

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Early voting kicks off in NSW ahead of state election (Sky News Australia)

The electoral commission is expecting an earlier turn out of people to cast their votes in person this NSW state election, noting internet voting is not ...

which will determine the result," he told Seal. "Today, people across our state head to the polls," he said. "Our message to the people in NSW is straight forward, vote for change." Tens of thousands of voters have hit polling booths early across the state ahead of the New South Wales election on March 25. The electoral commission is expecting an earlier turn out of people to cast their votes in person this NSW state election, noting internet voting is not available this time around. Pre-polling has opened in New South Wales ahead of the state election in one week's time, with an estimated 250,000 people expected to cast their votes on day one.

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