Guide to the Ephemera relating to the 2022 Australian federal election campaign, 2022

Summary

Collection number:

EPH FC 13.2022

Language:

English and English

Availability:

Available

Background

Content Summary:

Covers mainly printed materials issued by the parties, independents, lobby groups for both Houses of Parliament for the 2022 federal election. The range of ephemera includes bumper stickers, posters, visiting cards, cartoons, newspapers, electorate reports, postcards, voting forms. Features some unusual non-print political collectibles such as banners, balloons, flags, clothing, buttons, badges, hats.

The list is based on imperfect holdings and is updated over time as gaps in the Library's holdings are filled.

Biographical / Historical:

Elections are for the House of Representatives and half the Senate. A simultaneous (or double) dissolution election is for both the House of Representatives and the entire Senate. Election dates since Federation: 1901, 1903, 1906 ; 1910, 1913, 1914 (double), 1917, 1919 ; 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929 (HR) ; 1931, 1934, 1937 ; 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 ; 1951 (double), 1953 (half S), 1954 (HR), 1955, 1958 ; 1961, 1963 (HR), 1964 (half S), 1966 (HR), 1967 (half S), 1969 (HR) ; 1970 (half S), 1972 (HR), 1974 (double), 1975 (double), 1977 ; 1980, 1983 (double), 1984, 1987 (double) ; 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022.

Referendums are the formal process of amending the Commonwealth Constitution of which there have been eighteen involving forty-two separate amendment attempts of which only eight have been carried. There have been eight occasions where the referendums have been held simultaneously with the elections in 1906, 1910, 1913, 1919, 1928, 1946, 1974, 1984. These maybe included here.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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