WARNING

Please note the following regarding polling booths on election day. Information is quoted from the AEC web site.

COMMONWEALTH ELECTORAL ACT 1918
- SECT 340
Prohibition of canvassing near polling booths

(1)
The following acts are, on polling day, and on all days to which the polling is adjourned, prohibited at an entrance of or within a polling booth, or in any public or private place within 6 metres of an entrance of a polling booth, namely:

(a)
canvassing for votes; or
(b)
soliciting the vote of any elector; or
(c)
inducing any elector not to vote for any particular candidate; or
(d)
inducing any elector not to vote at the election; or
(e)
exhibiting any notice or sign (other than an official notice) relating to the election.
Penalty: $500.

(2)
Where:

(a)
a building used as a polling booth is situated in grounds within an enclosure; and
(b)
the appropriate Divisional Returning Officer causes to be displayed throughout the hours of polling at each entrance to those grounds a notice signed by the Divisional Returning Officer stating that those grounds are, for the purposes of subsection (1), part of the polling booth;
those grounds shall, for the purposes of that subsection, be deemed to be part of the polling booth.