Next year the Federal election will be held, and depending where you are there may be others. In Queensland we have recently just held the State elections.
If you are travelling around Australia, or going overseas for an extended period of time, then it is possible to advise the AEC (Australian Electoral Commission) of the fact that you have no fixed address. What this does is stop the AEC chasing you when you inadvertently don’t vote at an election, which you may be unaware of, or may not even be able to vote at.
This process is to inform AEC that you are an itinerant voter. Which means you can vote if you can/want to, but if not then you won’t get fined.
As far as I know this applies to all elections, council,state and federal.
Below is an explanation of how I have gone about this. It was not as straight forward as I thought it should have been as there is no direct link to the form you need.
You need to use the People with no fixed address enrolment form.
How I did it
Go to this page on the AEC site and click on the Enrol to vote with no fixed address
After that you land on another page, click on No fixed address enrolment form
Select you state, then fill out the form using your last registered address., also make the selection as below.
Once this form has been submitted, you should get an email confirming you are now an Itinerant voter, this may take a few days.
Itinerant Confirmation letter
That’s it, all done. One last thing to have to think about when on the road.
I hope this information may be useful to someone out there, and if there are any corrections to be made, please leave a comment.