• you are an Australian citizen, or eligible British subject,
• aged 18 years and over, and
• have lived at your address for at least one month.

If you are 16 or 17 you can enrol now so when you turn 18 you'll be able to vote.

• your driver's licence, or
• Australian passport number, or
• have someone who is enrolled confirm your identity.

18+ or Proof of Age cards are not accepted.

There are special enrolment forms and/or information for:

• Silent electors
• General postal voters
• People with no fixed address
  (homeless, seasonal workers or travellers around Australia with no address to return to)
• Long-term travellers within Australia
  (who will return to their permanent enrolled address)
• Overseas residents or going overseas
• People physically incapable of signing
• Prisoners
• Norfolk Island electors
• Workers in Antarctica
• People with disability
• Seniors

While the AEC only runs federal elections, the action taken by completing an AEC enrolment form is applied for federal and any relevant state, territory or local government elections.

• complete and print a PDF form then return it to the AEC
• pick up a form at an AEC office and return it to the AEC.