Hi guys,
I have a tricky one... I am in the process of registering a Federal political party through the AEC.
We need to have 500 certified members from the electoral role to register.
The AEC told us that they will need to verify many by hand, as they don't match up, etc. They stated that if we fall short of the 500, they will not tell us which ones don't match up with the electoral role, and that we just have to submit another list of 500 members. (We cannot just add another 20 names)
They cited the Privacy Act as the reason why they can't tell us which details are not correct - even though this is our list that we gave to them!
What if we don't trust them to do their job - how would we ever know if they were dodgy?!
Does anyone know if that sounds right about the privacy law and using our own list?
Thanks!
I have a tricky one... I am in the process of registering a Federal political party through the AEC.
We need to have 500 certified members from the electoral role to register.
The AEC told us that they will need to verify many by hand, as they don't match up, etc. They stated that if we fall short of the 500, they will not tell us which ones don't match up with the electoral role, and that we just have to submit another list of 500 members. (We cannot just add another 20 names)
They cited the Privacy Act as the reason why they can't tell us which details are not correct - even though this is our list that we gave to them!
What if we don't trust them to do their job - how would we ever know if they were dodgy?!
Does anyone know if that sounds right about the privacy law and using our own list?
Thanks!