Media releases

May

• Recount in the Division of Bradfield [24 May 2025]
• Count update: Distribution of preferences and the week ahead [17 May 2025]
• AEC statement: Ballot transport container temporarily unaccounted for [14 May 2025]
• Count update: Progress continues in Australia’s largest and most complex count ever [9 May 2025]
• AEC Statement: Count progress [6 May 2025]
• Election day reminders [2 May 2025]
• Campaigning behaviour outside early voting centres [1 May 2025]

April

• Federal election counting 101: How does it work? [30 April 2025]
• Interstate on Election Day? Vote Early! [30 April 2025]
• AEC statement: Partially authorised electoral signage [29 April 2025]
• Travelling for NRL Magic Round? Vote before you go! [29 April 2025]
• AEC message to postal voters [28 April 2025]
• REMINDER: Early voting centres closed on ANZAC DAY [24 April 2025]
• AEC statement: Unauthorised pamphlets in Wentworth [23 April 2025]
• Postal voting? Action needed this week [23 April 2025]
• AEC Statement: Unauthorised pamphlets in Wentworth [21 April 2025]
• Early voting centres open tomorrow [21 April 2025]
• AEC statement: Use of ballot paper image in West Australian newspaper [19 April 2025]
• Official Election Guide hitting 12 million letterboxes [17 April 2025]
• 2025 federal election - Check the accessibility of voting centres near you [16 April 2025]
• Paid work available for regional and rural Aussies [14 April 2025]
• 1,456 candidates to contest 2025 federal election [12 April 2025]
• AEC Statement: Mr Rodney Cullerton’s candidate nomination [11 April 2025]
• Record enrolment ahead of 2025 federal election [11 April 2025]
• AEC federal election plans progressing well in WA [9 April 2025]
• AEC statement: Authorisation statements for social media content [7 April 2025]
• Last call: Candidate nominations closing [7 April 2025]
• Enrolment closes in a few hours! Last chance to enrol or update your details for the 2025 federal election [7 April 2025]
• Postal voters risk missing out if they don’t act now [4 April 2025]
• Most voting services ever for Australians overseas [3 April 2025]
• Enrolment on track for record high but deadline fast approaching [3 April 2025]

March

• AEC encourages lawful & respectful campaigning [31 March 2025]
• AEC warning on third-party postal vote applications [31 March 2025]
• Australia’s largest ever federal election kicks off [28 March 2025]
• Queensland federal redistribution deferred [28 March 2025]
• Federal electoral divisions in the Northern Territory formalised [4 March 2025]

February

• Changes to electoral laws [21 February 2025]
• 2023-24 annual financial disclosure return information published today [3 February 2025]

January

• AEC urging voter focus on digital literacy ahead of 2025 federal election [31 January 2025]
• 2023-24 annual financial disclosure return information to be published on Monday 3 February 2025 [29 January 2025]
• 130,000 West Australian households notified of seat change ahead of 2025 federal election [29 January 2025]
• 200,000 Victorian households notified of seat change ahead of 2025 federal election [29 January 2025]
• 360,000 households across NSW notified of seat change ahead of 2025 federal election [29 January 2025]
• 2025 federal election: Candidate & campaigner guides available now [20 January 2025]
• Electoral Integrity Assurance Taskforce publishes important information ahead of the next federal election [20 January 2025]
• Names and boundaries of federal electoral divisions in the Northern Territory decided [7 January 2025]