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This is the official page of the AEC’s Indigenous Electoral Participation Program

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Australia, Canberra

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Founded date

1984

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May 12, 2025	Navigating Australia's federal elections in the era of AI	Aaron Momin is Chief Information Security Officer at Synechron The recent Australian Federal Election marked a turning point. Not just for politics, but also for technology. This was the first national vote held since generative artificial ...
Nov 8, 2024	Neural Notes: AI winners and losers in the 2024 US election	Image: SmartCompany article-article-body Welcome to another edition of Neural Notes, where I look at some of the most interesting AI news of the week. In this edition: How AI was utilised during the US election, particularly on the big day ...
Jul 29, 2024	Parbery expands principal team through promotions and recruits	Profile Parbery More news on People Canberra-based management consulting firm Parbery has added a number of new principals to its leadership team over the past month, while naming Sam Lemin as its employee of the year. A senior manager in p...
May 26, 2023	Gov-issued takedowns spiked after new eSafety laws came into force	A spike in the amount of online content Australian authorities removed last year coincided with the chief content moderator gaining new takedown powers. Google and TikTok reported a sizeable increase in content items and accounts removed in...
Apr 4, 2023	Gov agencies get websites blocked without using s313 powers	Australian government agencies are making direct, "informal" approaches to internet providers and telcos to block access to websites, rather than continue to use a controversial power in the Telecommunications Act. The use of &quo...
Sep 9, 2022	The Queen was head of the Commonwealth for 70 years. Big changes could be in store after her death.	Entertainment The Queen was head of the Commonwealth for 70 years. Big changes could be in store after her death. Maria Noyen Updated 2022-09-09T09:52:19Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook Icon The letter F. Facebook...
Apr 22, 2022	Election 2022: Morrison promises more than $100 million to fix mobile blackspots and connectivity issues in urban fringes	Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas. The latest LNP election pitch to people living on the ‘urban fringes of major cities’ is more than $28 million to address mobile phone blackspots across 66 locations nationwide. Scott Morrison announ...
Feb 4, 2020	NBN Co has over 6000 'metro' premises in Sky Muster footprint	NBN Co has revealed over 6000 premises across six major metropolitan areas are now considered to fall within the Sky Muster satellite footprint. The company produced the new figures in response to an initially-misconstrued freedom of inform...
Apr 16, 2019	Australian Electoral Commission boots online blitz to counter fake news	Democracy, blessed with an adverserial leadership selection process, is always a bit messy. Sometimes a lot. Now, with interference fears at new highs, the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) has launched an online advertising blitz it ho...
Feb 1, 2018	Tech firms withhold political donations	The Australian technology companies that consistently make donations to the country's political parties were missing in action last year, with only one choosing to offer financial support. Optus is one of the two most consistent and generou...
Aug 15, 2017	Boycotting the Plebiscite Isn't Protesting: it's Voting 'No'	The same-sex marriage plebiscite is happening next month. If you're planning on voting, take a minute to choose from the below: Enrol here Check your details here. Update your information here. Living or going overseas? Make sure you're sti...
Mar 30, 2017	The 4013 urban premises to receive NBN satellite	More than 4000 premises in “urban” electorates across Australia are being offered Sky Muster satellite services to connect to the national broadband network. The numbers come from a fresh dump of NBN rollout data by federal electorate that ...
Jul 13, 2016	Electronic voting may be risky, but what about vote counting?	By Robert Merkel Several advantages of online voting were identified in a recent post by Conversation columnist and software researcher David Glance who backed the introduction of such a scheme in Australia. He is correct that an online vot...
Jul 6, 2016	Why it’s time for Australia to move to electronic online voting	By David Glance Australia’s current election proves that there has never been a greater need for online electronic voting. The country has come to a political standstill as the laborious process of manual counting of ballot papers is conduc...
Jun 29, 2016	Why it's OK That Lots of Australians Won't Vote on Saturday	Photo by Flickr user Simon Yeo. Australia is one of 10 political entities around the world that enforces mandatory voting laws, which means anyone enrolled to vote on who doesn't turn up to a polling station on July 2 for the Federal Electi...
Jun 15, 2016	Are Australian Govt websites up to scratch?	Australian government websites need to up their game when it comes to readability, with a new report revealing a majority are failing to meet plain English language website guidelines.
Jun 13, 2016	Governments in Australia and New Zealand fail to meet plain English website guidelines	VisibleThread identifies that 4 out of 5 of Australian Government websites analysed do not meet recommended readability standards. New Zealand fares better, but still has a way to go to achieve its readability goals. Cambridge UK, Monday 13...
Feb 16, 2013	Pirates and Wikileaks Share Battlefield In Aussie Election	In September, debutante parties representing both will face off at the Aussie ballot box. In the purple corner, the Rick Falkvinge inspired Pirate Party. In the black corner, the newly formed Wikileaks Party with Julian Assange himself runn...
Jan 22, 2013	Australian Pirate Party Gets Approved and Russians are Denied (Again)	There is a certain level of symmetry to the world. When one part of the world has day, the other half has night. And more importantly, when one hemisphere gets summer, the other has winter. Right now it’s summer in the southern hemisphere a...
	AEC reorganisation opens CIO role	The Australian Electoral Commission is looking for a chief information officer (CIO) for its enterprise transformation group (ETG). The commission told iTnews it is looking for a non-ongoing CIO “following an organisational restructure that...

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FAQ about AEC

When was AEC founded?

AEC was founded in 1984.

What has the press written about AEC?

Parsers VC has collected 21 articles mentioning AEC, among them “Navigating Australia's federal elections in the era of AI” (May 12, 2025) and “Neural Notes: AI winners and losers in the 2024 US election” (Nov 8, 2024).

Is AEC still active?

Yes, AEC is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 26, 2025.