Election Resources

ACL election resources

ACL provides a number of resources to help you make your vote count in the Election.

	Make Your Vote for Values Count: Part 1 - How to use the preferential voting system in the House of Representatives This clip explains how Christians can maximise their House of Representatives preferences to ensure candidates who support Christian values are favoured. It shows how there is no wasted vote. Windows Media Player Download (Low Res - 10.3MB) QuickTime Download (Low Res - 11.9MB) Windows Media Player Download (High Res - 19.1MB) QuickTime Download (High Res - 21.7MB)
	Make Your Vote for Values Count: Part 2 - Senate voting: above or below the line? This clip explains the difference between voting above and below the line on the complex Senate ballot paper. ACL encourages Christians to take the simplest approach and vote above the line for the party they think best reflects Christian values unless they feel absolutely confident about numbering all the boxes, mistake free, below the line on a Senate ballot paper. Windows Media Player Download (Low Res - 8.6MB) QuickTime Download (Low Res - 10.7MB) Windows Media Player Download (High Res - 15.5MB) QuickTime Download (High Res - 19.4MB)
	Make It Count 2007 Webcast On 9th August 2007, the Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd addressed the Christian constituency in Australia. About 200 major church leaders gathered at the National Press Club in Canberra and the event was live-broadcast via ther internet to about 100,000 Christians across Australia. To download these movies, please visit this article on the ACL website.
	Australia Votes Summary Booklet This booklet provides the summary responses from political parties to ACL's election questionnaire. Download the Australia Votes Summary Booklet (PDF format: 2.4MB)

Christian comment on the 2007 Federal Election

(A number of Christian organisations have made comment on the upcoming election. ACL hopes that you find their analysis useful. Please note that ACL does not necessarily endorse the content of these website. The links are provided for your further information).

• Evangelical Alliance Election website
  http://www.evangelicalalliance.org.au/AustralianElection2007.aspx
   
• Christian Values and the 2007 Federal Election
  In this document, three ordinary guys from Murrumbeena Baptist Church explore their faith, the gospel, and the Federal Political scene to determine the issues that they think are important in the way they cast their votes at the forthcoming election.
  www.murrumbeena-baptist.org/mbc/federalelection
   
• National Council of Churches Election Kit
  www.ncca.org.au/__data/page/387/Election_Kit.pdf
   
• Marriage and Family Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
  Voting records and policies relating to some life, marriage and family issues
  www.lifeoffice.org.au/pdf/new/CW_ElectionSpecial.pdf
   
• Christian Values Institute
  Christian values checklist
  www.christianvalues.org.au/check_list.html
   
• The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference – Vote for the Common Good
  Australia’s Catholic Bishops have issued a statement urging Catholics to consider the common good when casting their vote this year.
  www.acbc.catholic.org.au/documents/200708071764.pdf
   
• Uniting Church of Australia – 2007 election resources
  Growing a Nation of Hope is an election resource produced by the National Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia
  matrix.nsw.uca.org.au/assembly/resources/election_resources_2007/
   

Media links

• The Australian - www.theaustralian.news.com.au
• The Age - www.theage.com.au
• The Herald Sun - www.news.com.au/heraldsun
• The Sydney Morning Herald - www.smh.com.au
• The Daily Telegraph - www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph
• The Courier-Mail - www.ntnews.com.au
• The NT News - www.ntnews.com.au
• The West Australian - www.thewest.com.au
• The Adelaide Advertiser - www.news.com.au/adelaidenow
• The Hobart Mercury - www.news.com.au/mercury
• The Canberra Times - canberra.yourguide.com.au/home.asp

• ABC – www.abc.net.au
• ABC Elections Australia Votes 2007 - www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2007/
• You Decide 2007 - www.news.com.au/feature/0,,5012863,00.html

• Federal Election.com.au - http://www.federalelection.com.au/default.asp This website from Ray Morgan Research and iPrime provides blogs, party links, DVDs and a very useful list of candidates standing in electorates across Australia (including current margins).

Party websites

Party websites are available by clicking here.