Voting is your chance to make your mark, to choose your Member of Parliament and local government representative, and have your say in how we are governed.

In Queensland, voting is compulsory for Federal, State and Local Government Elections. Before you can vote, your name must be on the electoral roll Queensland. If you are eligible to enrol to vote, you must enrol, or you could be fined.

You are eligible to enrol to vote if:

• you have turned 17 (although you will not be able to vote until you are 18)
• you are an Australian citizen
• you have lived at your address for at least one month.

British subjects, who are not Australian citizens, are eligible to enrol for Federal, Queensland State and local government elections if they were on a Commonwealth of Australia electoral roll on 25 January 1984. Any other person who was eligible for the Queensland State electoral roll on 31 December 1991 is only eligible to enrol for Queensland State and local government elections.

To enrol to vote, download and complete an Enrolment form

In Queensland, we have a joint roll maintained by the Australian Electoral Commission. This means that an elector is only required to complete the one form to enrol for Federal, State and local government elections

For more detailed information on enrolment, go to the Australian Electoral Commission’s website, or phone 132 326.