Full Time on the Road

Darmc · Veteran Member

Full Time on the Road

gumpybsc · Senior Member

Hi Darmc

The Australian Electoral Commission have advice for full time travellers including nomads here:

http://www.aec.gov.au/enrolling_to_vote/special_category/travellers.htm

For your drivers lic and rego renewals, it is compulsory to have these current. I believe all you need is to be able to furnish an address, even just a friend's address, anywhere in Australia, so that you can be contacted by a state government road authority as and when required. We haven't been in this position yet so I'm not too sure on how this works.

Cheers

Greg

RosieW · Guru

AEC you can do what we do, itinerant voter. Choose to vote or not.

Licence & Rego, you need an address in the state of issue. A friend or family member will do, you can get a postal address anywhere in the country to get renewals sent. Plan a holiday in your home state to get licence photo renewal done.

BaupleNut · Senior Member

RosieW wrote:
AEC you can do what we do, itinerant voter. Choose to vote or not.

Licence & Rego, you need an address in the state of issue. A friend or family member will do, you can get a postal address anywhere in the country to get renewals sent. Plan a holiday in your home state to get licence photo renewal done.

Sorry Rosie,but I don't understand this statement???

Have edited post, sorry Rosie I just went to the AEC site and found this,but you still must vote if registered!

http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/Special_Category/Enrolment_with_no_fixed_address.htm

The Australian Electoral Commission have advice for full time travellers including nomads here:

http://www.aec.gov.au/enrolling_to_vote/special_category/travellers.htm

This only works if you have a permanent address!

-- Edited by BaupleNut on Tuesday 24th of May 2016 05:57:52 PM

-- Edited by BaupleNut on Tuesday 24th of May 2016 05:58:35 PM

rockylizard · Guru

BaupleNut wrote:
RosieW wrote:
AEC you can do what we do, itinerant voter. Choose to vote or not.

Licence & Rego, you need an address in the state of issue. A friend or family member will do, you can get a postal address anywhere in the country to get renewals sent. Plan a holiday in your home state to get licence photo renewal done.
Sorry Rosie,but I don't understand this statement???
Have edited post, sorry Rosie I just went to the AEC site and found this, but you still must vote if registered!
http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/Special_Category/Enrolment_with_no_fixed_address.htm
Gday...
BaupleNut - this paragraph is within the AEC website you have included above regarding 'no fixed address' -
I have been registered as an itinerant elector - of no fixed address - for the past eight years.
An itinerant can vote, if they choose, at ANY election booth in Straya (or postal or absentee vote) for the electorate they are 'registered' in - ie as an itinerant you are shown on the roll at the last permanent address you were at on the electoral roll.
If an elector registered as an itinerant (no fixed address) chooses not to vote, no fine will be applied.
Cheers - John

-- Edited by rockylizard on Tuesday 24th of May 2016 07:21:05 PM

Darmc · Veteran Member

Thanks for your replies

Safe travels
Darmc

RosieW · Guru

BaupleNut wrote:
RosieW wrote:
AEC you can do what we do, itinerant voter. Choose to vote or not.

Licence & Rego, you need an address in the state of issue. A friend or family member will do, you can get a postal address anywhere in the country to get renewals sent. Plan a holiday in your home state to get licence photo renewal done.
Sorry Rosie,but I don't understand this statement???
Have edited post, sorry Rosie I just went to the AEC site and found this,but you still must vote if registered!
http://www.aec.gov.au/Enrolling_to_vote/Special_Category/Enrolment_with_no_fixed_address.htm

Nope, don't have to. From the link you posted:

Will I get fined if I don't enrol and vote?
It is not compulsory to enrol or vote if you are a person with no fixed address and you will not be fined. However, you can and are encouraged to enrol and vote if you wish to. Plus, I rang them the day the election (Federal) was announced to check, and we don't have to, although they prefer we did.

We're postal voting, hate lining up at polling booths.

The Australian Electoral Commission have advice for full time travellers including nomads here:
http://www.aec.gov.au/enrolling_to_vote/special_category/travellers.htm

This only works if you have a permanent address!

-- Edited by BaupleNut on Tuesday 24th of May 2016 05:57:52 PM

-- Edited by BaupleNut on Tuesday 24th of May 2016 05:58:35 PM