Key Points
- The role of councils is to implement the laws legislated by the state and federal governments.
- Voting is compulsory in all elections in Australia.
- Survey and focus group data collected by Dr Sukhmani Khorana of UNSW and Fan Yang from the University of Melbourne found found that nearly half of South-Asian community struggles to understand Australian politics.
- The voting literacy gaps give rise to misinformation in the community.
