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University of Melbourne Annual Student Election

7 – 11 September 2009

Notice is hereby given that nominations open at 12 midday on Monday 27 July, for the 2009 University of Melbourne Annual Student Election.

Positions to be filled at the election include:

Office-bearers, committees and Students’ Council of the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU)
Office-bearers and committee of the Burnley Students Association (BSA)
Several by-elections for both UMSU and BSA
Student representative on the board of MU Student Union Ltd
Student representative on the University of Melbourne Council
Delegates to the National Union of Students (NUS)
Members of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music Student Association (VCAMSA) Council

A complete list of positions appears at the end of this notice.

Nominations close at 12 midday on Friday 14 August.

Polling will take place from Monday 7 September until Friday 11 September (inclusive). All students (not just UMSU members) are eligible to vote. A detailed schedule of polling times and locations will be posted after close of nominations. Students may also vote by post; applications for postal votes close at 5pm on Wednesday 2 September.

Tickets: Any fifteen (15) students who are UMSU members may register a ticket to run in the election by filling in the appropriate form. Applications for Ticket Registration open and close at the same time as nominations. It is not necessary to be on a ticket to run in the election.

Tickets that are running candidates for multi-member positions should also submit a form showing the order in which they wish their candidates to appear. Candidates running for positions that cannot be held concurrently should submit a form showing which positions they wish to hold in case of a conflict.

Ticket registration forms, candidate order forms and conflict of position forms must all be submitted by close of nominations. All forms are available from the Returning Officer or can be downloaded from the election website (see below)

Policy speeches: Candidates may also submit with their nominations policy statements for publication in Farrago and on the election website. Policy statements must not exceed 300 words for office-bearer positions or 100 words for all other positions.

Please note that all deadlines are strict and cannot be extended. Candidates are strongly urged to lodge their forms well before the deadlines. All forms should be delivered personally to the Returning Officer or an authorised electoral official. (The Election Office will be open extensively throughout the election period, or ring for an appointment.) Where this is not practicable, please contact the Returning Officer in order to make other arrangements. Do not post forms without prior arrangement, as no responsibility will be taken for late or lost forms under those circumstances. It is not possible to accept faxed or emailed forms.

Contact Details

For all enquiries, forms and other election material, contact the Election Office: Student Resource Room, UMSU Office Area, first floor Union House; Phone: 03 8344 4835.
Or visit the Election website: http://union.unimelb.edu.au/elections

Returning Officer: Charles Richardson (Ph: 03 9383 5598)
Deputy Returning Officer: Jaimie Adam (Ph: 04 3073 4043)
Email: ReturningOfficer@union.unimelb.edu.au
Mailing address: UMSU Returning Officer, c/o Above Quota Elections, PO Box 2157, Fitzroy, VIC 3065

Notices will also be posted on the Students’ Council notice board, first floor, Union House.

Positions for Election

UMSU Annual Election

Office Bearers:

President
Secretary
Education (Academic Affairs) Officer
Education (Public Affairs) Officer
Welfare Officer
Wom*n’s Officer
Arts Officer
Activities Officer
Queer Officer
Environment Officer
Media Officers
Clubs & Societies Officer
Indigenous Officer

Students’ Council:

Queer Representative
Indigenous Representative
International Representative
Mature Age Representative
Fourteen (14) general members elected by all students.

Committees

Seven (7) members on each of the following Committees:

Activities Committee
Arts Committee
Education Committee
Environment Committee
Indigenous Committee
Queer Committee
Welfare Committee
Wom*n’s Committee

UMSU By-Election

To fill casual vacancies for terms ending 31 December 2009:

Wom*n’s Officer
Queer Officer
Indigenous Committee (Four (4) positions)
Queer Committee (One (1) position)

Burnley Student Association Annual Election

President (Education Coordinator)
Vice-President (Welfare Coordinator)
Publications / Media Coordinator
Facilities Coordinator
Sports and Recreation Coordinator
General Committee Members: Seven (7) voting representatives

Burnley Student Association By-Election

To fill casual vacancies for terms ending 31 December 2009:

Publications / Media Coordinator
Sports and Recreation Coordinator
Three (3) General Committee Members

MU Student Union Ltd.

One (1) student member of the board of MU Student Union Ltd.

University Council

One (1) student member of the Council of the University of Melbourne.

National Union of Students

Seven (7) Delegates to the National Conference of the National Union of Students Inc., in accordance with the rules of NUS.

VCAMSA Provisional Election

Fourteen (14) members of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music Student Association Council:

Campus Co-ordinator
Campaigns Co-ordinator
Queer student representative
Indigenous student representative
International student representative
Wom*n student representative
Graduate student representative
One representative each from the following academic units of the Faculty of the VCA and Music:
o Art
o Drama
o Dance
o Film and Television
o Music
o Production
o Musical Theatre

Restrictions on election

Any student may nominate for the positions on University Council and the MU Student Union Ltd Board. Candidates for all other positions must be UMSU members at the time of both nomination and election.

The position of Media Officers must be held jointly by teams of three or four candidates. All other officer positions, except for President and Secretary, may be held either individually or by two candidates jointly.

Candidates for Wom*n’s Officer, Wom*n’s Committee and Wom*n’s representative on VCAMSA Council must be women. For all other committees, including the general members of Students’ Council and the BSA Committee (but not the NUS delegation), at least half of the members (ignoring remainders) must be women, provided there are sufficient female candidates.

Candidates for Queer Officer, Queer Representative on Students’ Council, Queer Committee and Queer representative on VCAMSA Council must be Queer students. A single candidate for Queer Officer must be a woman; in the case of joint candidates for Queer Officer, at least one of them must be a woman.

Candidates for Indigenous Officer, Indigenous Representative on Students’ Council, Indigenous Committee and Indigenous representative on VCAMSA Council must be Indigenous students.

Candidates for International Representative on Students’ Council and on VCAMSA Council must be International students. Candidates for Mature Age Representative on Students’ Council must be Mature Age students. Candidates for Graduate representative on VCAMSA Council must be Graduate students.

Candidates for the BSA positions must be Burnley students. Candidates for VCAMSA Council must be students at the Faculty of the VCA and Music, and candidates for positions representing specific academic units at that Faculty must be students of those academic units.

For further information on eligibility to stand and to vote in the election, please consult the Election Regulations, available at the UMSU Office and on the election website.

Charles Richardson
Above Quota Elections
Returning Officer

24 July 2009