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- Voting – choosing your parliamentary representatives: Introduction
- Voting – choosing your parliamentary representatives: Activity 3
Voting – choosing your parliamentary representatives: Activity 3
Rights and responsibilities: compulsory voting - analysing and assessing information
In pairs, instruct students to research compulsory voting in Australia. Provide students with web addresses or down load information from www.aec.gov.au > Voting > Compulsory voting.
Instruct students to present information using a graphic organiser such as a T chart to display arguments for and against.
Conduct a mini debate using the information gathered on compulsory voting.
Facilitate a discussion around the consequences of people not exercising their democratic right to vote for representatives in an election.
Introduction | Activity One | Activity Two | Activity Three | Activity Four