Sept/Oct 2013 Aff: Success Examples foundationbriefs.com Page 39 of 104 Australia’s Success AMS Lisa Hill and Jonathon Louth: Compulsory Voting Laws and Turnout Discipline of Politics, School of History and Politics,University of Adelaide. October 2004. http://www.academia.edu/703084/Compulsory_voting_laws_and_turnout_efficacy_and_appropriateness The Australian Experiment. Queensland was the first Australian state to introduce compulsory voting in 1914. Compulsory enrolment for Federal elections was introduced in 1911 but voting itself did not become mandatory until 1924 (A.E.C.,1999). It was not compulsory for Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders to register and vote until Compulsory voting was introduced in Australia to address the problem of low voter turnout and it proved to bean extremely effective and well-tolerated remedy In 1903 the federal election turnout had only been 46.86% (AEC 1999) and at the last Federal election immediately prior to the introduction of compulsory voting (the average turnout of registered voters was 58.67%.
But turnout at the first federal election after 1924 (ie in 1925) surged dramatically to an average of 91.35%(RV). Data taken from the nine elections preceeding and the nine following itsintroduction shows Share with your friends: 
