The Latest Breaking News from Australian Electoral Commission

Knowing you exist and that you're over 18 isn't enough to get onto the electoral roll. While half a million Australians are likely to miss out on voting this federal election, it's not as simple as being automatically added to the list.

Staff needed to work across 7,500 polling places, with Covid contingency planning adding to challenges

The federal election is just weeks away but 15 per cent of people aged 18 to 24 are not enrolled to vote.

Electoral Commission says it moved on Bonds after 'referral

The rate of voter participation in federal elections by people living in remote Indigenous communities has been lower than the national average since First Nations people were granted the right to vote in 1962. In recent years, the rate has been in decline. Rates are lowest in the Northern Territory.

The election has been called. But what does the process of voting actually look like?

The Australian Electoral Commission has paused a review into the Northern Territory's major conservative party, which was launched after the CLP's only sitting senator, Sam McMahon, quit the party.

The Australian Electoral Commission has defended its work trying to raise the enrolment rates of Aboriginal voters in the remote NT, but a powerful land council says it's been too little, too late.

Stuart Bonds throws hat in election ring as Independent