The Disenfranchisement of Prisoners

See The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902, s 4.

Orr Graeme , ‘Ballotless and Behind Bars: The Denial of the Franchise to Prisoners’ (1998) 26 Federal Law Review 55, 72 quoting The Sunday Mail (Brisbane), 9 July 1995, 1.

See generally Fitzgerald Jennifer Zdenkowski George , ‘Voting Rights of Convicted Persons’ (1987) 11 Criminal Law Journal 11; Orr Graeme , above n 2; Davidson Jerome , ‘Inside Outcasts: Prisoners and the Right to Vote in Australia’ (Current Issues Brief No 12 2003–04, Australian Parliamentary Library, 2004) 2 <http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/CIB/2003–04/04cib12.pdf> at 16 August 2007; Ridley-Smith Melinda Redman Ronni , ‘Prisoners and the Right to Vote’, in Brown David Wilkie Meredith (eds), Prisoners as Citizens (2002) 283; Redman Ronni Brown David Mercurio Bryan , ‘The Politics and Legality of Prisoner Disenfranchisement in Australian Federal Elections’ in Ewald Alec Rottinghaus Brandon (eds), Democracy and Punishment: International Perspectives on Criminal Disenfranchisement (forthcoming, 2008).

Stevenson Andrew , ‘Gutsy Sharks snuff out 12-man Dragons' charge’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney) 12 June 2007.

ABC Television, ‘Ghost Prisoners’ Four Corners, 11 June 2007 <http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2007/s1947389.htm> at 16 August 2007.

Cronin Danielle , ‘Call to have condoms and voting in jail’, The Canberra Times (Canberra), 12 June 2007.

Davis Mark , ‘Insider reveals how PM reins in bureaucrats’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 12 June 2007.

AAP, “Uni pair suspended over disabled thesis”, The Canberra Times (Canberra) 12 June 2007.

ABC Radio National, ‘Should prisoners be allowed to vote’, Law Report, 12 June 2007 <http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lawreport/stories/2007/1945622.htm> at 16 August 2007.

(1991) 171 CLR 468.

Friend and colleague to many at UNSW and elsewhere, Ronni Redman died in January 2007. She was co-author of two book chapters on prisoners' voting rights (see note 2) and felt passionately about this and other human rights issues. She is greatly missed.

Lange (1997) 189 CLR 520; ACTV (1992) 177 CLR 106.

Sauvé v Canada (Chief Electoral Officer) [2002] 3 SCR 519; Hirst v the United Kingdom (No. 2) [GC], no 74025/01, ECHR 2005; Minister of Home Affairs v National Institute for Crime Prevention (NICRO) (2004) 5 BCLR 445 (CC).

Section 93 Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918.

Written Submissions of the Second Defendant, 23 May 2007, para 74.

O'Brien Natalie , ‘Downer denies any deception on Habib’, The Australian (Sydney), 13 June 2007.

Editorial, ‘Time to Shut Down Guantanamo Bay’, The Australian (Sydney), 13 June 2007.

O'Keefe Brendan , ‘Lecturers slam spy call’, The Australian (Sydney), 13 June 2007.

Written submission of the Second Defendant, 23 May 2007 para 12 quoting McGinty v Western Australia (1996) 186 CLR 140, 285 per Gummow J.

Ibid para 16.

Ibid 47–52

Ibid 53.

Ibid 62.

Ibid 63–5.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, 10 August 2004.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 12 August 2004.

Notice dated 13 April 2007; Reproduced in the Written submission of the plaintiff, 86.

[2002] 3 SCR 519, 4–5.

Electoral Legislation Amendment Act 2006 (WA) which came into force on 3 March 2007.

Submission of the Attorney General for NSW, Intervening 30 May 2007, 4.5.

DeParle Jason , ‘The American Prison Nightmare’, The New York Review of Books, 12 April 2007, 33–6; Manza Jeff Uggen Christopher , Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (2006)

Ibid 36

John Fairfax Publications Pty Ltd v Gacic [2007] HCA 26 14 June 2007