Length of stay in each state

KazKen · Member

Length of stay in each state

rockylizard · Guru

Gday...

To take the letter (and perhaps the spirit) of the law. Yes - IE ... if you stay in the same place - town not just a state - for three months then the rules do state you should change your licences/regos etc to the address you are staying at. This is particularly so if you take up part-time/casual employment at that location.

However, if you are a traveller and take many months to traverse that state, moving from town to town, camp to camp, then you are not required to become a 'permanent resident' of that state.

[EDIT: I have been on the road for nine years now ... I am recorded at the Australian Electoral Commission as an itinerant - IE, no fixed place of residence and therefore not required to vote in state or federal elections - although I can vote should I choose to (for the last recorded electorate I was recorded at - in my case GIPPSLAND).]

Cheers - John

-- Edited by rockylizard on Monday 29th of January 2018 04:08:19 PM

KazKen · Member

Thanks heaps John

Desert Dweller · Guru

If we meet any long term QLD campers down our way in VIC, we call them Mexican adoptees!

Feel free to go wherever you want for as long as you like, no-one really cares. smile smile

-- Edited by Desert Dweller on Monday 29th of January 2018 07:43:11 PM

Dougwe · Chief one feather

I'm happy to stay put for a while, sometimes weeks but don' t mind one night stands as I call them when on the move from point A to point B.

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Depends how much I drank the night before ?lol

Wizardofoz · Guru

Whats the go here and what laws would cover it?

I am considering buying an over 55s retirement home in Qld, live there for the winter months and move back to my NSW home for the summer months.

Do I need to be a dual state citizen?

-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Tuesday 30th of January 2018 08:47:14 AM

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

Yes well ?? I have a passport from The North Island . I guess it has to with Centrelink ?? Or change address ??

brickies · Guru

I think we need to read the rules on this again , It is if you take up residence and that's going to be your address you then have a 3 months to change your licence and registrating , If you are pull up by the police and they ask for your address and how long you have lived there and it's over 3 months you could be given a fine , I think this is a police matter and has nothing to do with likes of Centerlink .

Tony Bev · Guru

I think that brickies and John (Rockylizard), have hit the nail on the head

If you have a permanent address, then yes you have to change your licence/rego etc to your new permanent address

If you are traveling then there is no need/reason to keep changing everything, every three months, because you already have an address somewhere

Wizardofoz · Guru

That still doesnt answer my question!

if I live roughly equal Times in both states, do I register in both or just list NSW as my main residences?

-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Wednesday 31st of January 2018 08:47:54 AM

bill12 · Guru

I have a house on Magnetic island, QLD, and a cabin in a park at Tathra, NSW for the summer. The summers in NQ have been wearing me down for years, and the sth coast , NSW, has to be one of the prettiest places in Oz , so I have the best of both worlds.I usually go north in about march, and head south in October.Mind you , paying for two places can be painful in the pocket at times.

Wizardofoz · Guru

bill12 wrote:
I have a house on Magnetic island, QLD, and a cabin in a park at Tathra, NSW for the summer. The summers in NQ have been wearing me down for years, and the sth coast , NSW, has to be one of the prettiest places in Oz , so I have the best of both worlds.I usually go north in about march, and head south in October.Mind you , paying for two places can be painful in the pocket at times.

Bill, I presume that you have your official residence listed in QLD only, would that be right?

regarding costs...I believe that you cant take it with you in the end anyway Bill. (lol)

-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Wednesday 31st of January 2018 10:58:05 AM

-- Edited by Wizardofoz on Wednesday 31st of January 2018 10:58:31 AM