Someone reading my article on reforming the WA Legislative Council’s electoral system reminded me of a speech I did a number of years ago on Senate electoral reform and issues to do with savings provisions.
The speech was at the launch of a UNSW Law Journal special Issue number 39(1) with various papers on electoral law.
The Journal had several papers on different areas of electoral law. I addressed each of the papers before spending much of the speech on savings provisions and in particular looking at the issue of savings provisions with the reformed Senate electoral system.
The speech was shortly before the 2016 election, after the Senate electoral reforms had passed, but before they were ruled constitutional by the High Court.
Having watched the speech back, I thought it worth sharing and it can be viewed via the YouTube link in the post.