I received a media release from the Southern Cross Group in my inbox this evening. The media release is titled: Overseas Australians Should Enrol to Vote Now [pdf]. It is a reminder for diasporans that the Electoral Act has changed and the diasporans need to enrol each year to remain on the electoral roll. The AEC can strike a diasporan off if they miss voting in an election. (more)
One of the issues nation-states are going to have to face is an increasing number of the active global labor market who are disenfranchised. The nation-state view of citizenship is pretty myopic and Australia just had another round of legislation where more were prohibited from democratic involvement such that the AEC is better at purging the rolls than adding voters. But what to do about diasporans of all nations that full economic actors including taxpayers in the countries they work in but have no democratic expression there or at home? (more)
