{"id":"C2004A02590","name":"Senate Elections (Queensland) Act 1982","slug":"senate-elections-queensland-act-1982","collection":"act","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"31 of 1982","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":7301,"registerId":"commonwealth-C2004A02590-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-03-30","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Senate Elections (Queensland) Act 1982","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\n![opc_1.jpg](image.001.jpeg)\n\nSenate Elections (Queensland) Act 1982\n\nNo. 31 of 1982\n\n \n\nAn Act to make provision for the Senators for the State of Queensland to be chosen by the people of that State voting as one electorate\n\n[Assented to 21 May 1982]\n\nBE IT ENACTED by the Queen, and the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:\n\nShort title\n\n1. This Act may be cited as the Senate Elections (Queensland) Act 1982.\n\nChoosing of Senators for Queensland\n\n2. (1) Senators for the State of Queensland shall be directly chosen by the people of that State voting as one electorate.\n\n(2) The Parliament of the State of Queensland may not make laws pursuant to section 7 of the Constitution dividing that State into divisions and determining the number of senators to be chosen for each division.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":1522},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The legislation maintains its narrow, original purpose. It addresses exactly one issue—Queensland's Senate voting method—and includes no extraneous provisions or creeping expansion into unrelated policy areas."},"complexity_factors":["Only 2 operative sections","No definitions section","Single straightforward prohibition in subsection (2)","No conditional logic, exceptions, or exemptions","Minimal cross-referencing (only section 7 of the Constitution mentioned)"],"plain_english_summary":"This Act makes Queensland a single electorate for electing its 12 federal Senators: all voters across the State use the same Senate ballot. It also bars the Queensland Parliament from creating divisions or assigning senators to regions.\n\nBy locking in statewide proportional voting, the law prevents state-level redrawing or regional allocation that could favor particular parties, preserving consistent, non‑gerrymandered representation for Queensland in the federal Senate."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/senate-elections-queensland-act-1982","history":"/api/acts/senate-elections-queensland-act-1982/history","analysis":"/api/acts/senate-elections-queensland-act-1982/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/senate-elections-queensland-act-1982/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/senate-elections-queensland-act-1982/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/senate-elections-queensland-act-1982/documents"}}