{"id":14128,"date":"2022-12-05T06:25:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T22:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/notice-of-election-postgraduate-student-member-to-the-university-council\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T03:42:00","slug":"notice-of-election-postgraduate-student-member-to-the-university-council","status":"publish","type":"oasis-news","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/oasis-news\/notice-of-election-postgraduate-student-member-to-the-university-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of election: Postgraduate student member to the University Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTICE OF ELECTION <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>ONE POSTGRADUATE STUDENT MEMBER TO THE UNIVERSITY COUNCIL <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Curtin University Act 1966 (WA)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>(for a term of office from 21 November 2022 to 20 November 2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When nominations closed on Wednesday, 19 October 2022, two (2) nominations for the election of a postgraduate student to the University Council had been received.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates are listed below in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n<p><em>Mitchell <strong>Craig<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Bhaarath <strong>Kathiravan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>The ballot webpage which contains the candidate profiles and photographs, instructions and other requirements relating to the voting process, and the election schedule can be found <\/u><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secretariat.curtin.edu.au\/elections\/pgelection.cfm\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><strong><u>.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Voting Instructions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The election will be conducted using Curtin University\u2019s electronic voting system \u2018<strong><em>Simply Voting<\/em><\/strong><em>\u2019<\/em>. On <strong>Tuesday, 1 November 2022<\/strong> all postgraduate students of the University will receive a generated email from <em>Simply Voting<\/em> which contains an Elector ID, a randomly generated password and a link to the Simply Voting website.<\/p>\n<p>Please note, <u>the generated email from <em>Simply Voting<\/em> may be received in your junk email box<\/u>. Please ensure that you check your junk mail if you cannot find the email.<\/p>\n<p>If you have previously unsubscribed to Simply Voting emails received in relation to any other election conducted by Curtin University, you will not receive an email from <em>Simply Voting<\/em>.\u00a0 I<u>n order to vote in this election, you are required to resubscribe to receive <em>Simply Voting<\/em> emails.<\/u>\u00a0 To resubscribe, please contact the Secretariat via email <a href=\"mailto:secretariat@curtin.edu.au\">secretariat@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you have accessed the <em>Simply Voting<\/em> website, the list of candidates will appear in a random order. If the candidate has provided a statement supporting their case for election or a photograph, you may click on their name to view the statement and\/or photograph.<\/p>\n<p>In this election:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Voting is not compulsory.<\/li>\n<li>Voting will begin at <strong>10:00am <\/strong><strong>on Tuesday, 1 November 2022 <\/strong>and close at <strong>5.00pm on Tuesday, 15 November 2022<em>. <\/em><\/strong>Please note that Simply Voting will not accept votes outside of these times.<\/li>\n<li>Votes will be counted electronically using the optional preferential system.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<li>You must vote for at least one (1) candidate.<\/li>\n<li>Place the numeral \u201c1\u201d in the box beside your candidate of first preference.<\/li>\n<li>You may choose to express a preference for the remaining candidate. Place the numeral \u201c2\u201d in the box beside the candidate for whom you wish to express a second preference.<\/li>\n<li><em>Simply Voting<\/em> will invite you to check your ballot choices before you submit your vote.<\/li>\n<li>Once the vote is confirmed, it may not be recalled and you will not be able to vote again.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>Counting of votes and announcement of election result<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Votes will be counted as soon as practicable after the voting period ends.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate who receives the highest number of votes, following the distribution of preferences, will be declared elected to the Council.<\/p>\n<p>The result of the election will be declared by the Returning Officer on <strong>Thursday, 17 November 2022<\/strong> and all candidates will be notified of the election result in writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jon Porter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director, Secretariat and Council Secretary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Returning Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two nominations for the election of a postgraduate student member to the University Council have been received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4412,"featured_media":20587,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_oasis-categories":0,"footnotes":""},"oasis-categories":[137],"class_list":["post-14128","oasis-news","type-oasis-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","oasis-categories-important"],"acf":false,"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Image1-1.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Louis","last_name":"Humberstone","display_name":"Louis Humberstone"},"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 22:23:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/14128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/oasis-news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-news\/14128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"oasis-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/oasis-categories?post=14128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}