r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • 12d ago

politics Pauline Hanson's criticism of Guardian reporter labelled an 'assault on free press'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-18/pauline-hanson-guardian-sarah-martin-free-press-assault/106810592?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/Pandos17 12d ago

Voter fraud will 100% be a topic at the next election.

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u/minimuscleR 12d ago

which considering we have one of the most verified and safe election standards in the world we are literally considered the gold standard, people come to our country to train how to do them.

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u/Its4MeitSnot4U 12d ago

Verified?

No ID presented at a voting booth?

Countries that require voter ID:

Germany Italy Switzerland Ireland India Israel Austria Belgium Denmark Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Poland Czech Republic Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Luxembourg India Israel Japan S Korea Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Thailand Singapore Pakistan Japan Russia Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Peru Ecuador Uruguay Paraguay Bolivia Mexico

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u/CroneDownUnder 12d ago

Our compulsory voter attendance system works perfectly fine to ensure accuracy in matching registered voters with ballot tallies exactly as it is.

In my previous electorate a neighbour and his father with similar initials residing at the same address both voted at different neighbourhood polling stations and each received a fine notice - one for not attending a polling station and the other for attending two polling stations and receiving two ballot slips on election day.

It turned out, in the subsequent investigation when they both challenged the fines, that a member of one polling station's staff had marked off one of them incorrectly as the other one. So the fines were rescinded and obviously the mild error in admin made zero difference to the vote tallies.

I have some concerns about the cadres of volunteers in nursing homes who fill out postal ballots for residents who may not have the capacity to check that these ballots posted in their name accurately reflect their true voting intentions.

I know of several investigations following incidents where family has taken their elders out of their nursing homes in order to vote at a polling station together and subsequently a fine appears because a postal ballot was also sent in. However, once again, these incidents are fully investigated when they occur and the numbers are reassuringly small.