What i am wondering is how did the electrol roll knew you were not living at your home address for just one month?? Some people from this site alone can be away for 6/12 months at a given time and i have not read that this has happened to them. But then again they might not have posted such happenings on here, would be interesting to know if anyone else has had this happen to .Does Oz post let them know of this or what.
-- Edited by herbie on Friday 19th of April 2013 09:38:04 PM
have been on the road for 5 months now had my mail redirected to my brothers place now the electoral roll are going to take me off the roll because i haven't been at my address for over a month will this affect my disability pension
Snap, you can be enrolled officially as an 'Itinerant Voter'; that will allow you to vote in Federal elections, but not state or local. We did this over four years ago, through an electoral office, and we vote (absentee) from our old electorate in SA, although we've been travelling ever since. The Electoral Office is the only pragmatic government department we've come across (although Centreling does try!) - they've found a sensible way to deal with the growing nomad population.
Don't know about your pension; if it works like the age pension, we just give Centrelink a forwarding address - they know that we're full-time travellers and don't worry us.
Good luck with it all!
Andrea
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