{"id":21408,"date":"2024-01-15T02:35:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T02:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/?page_id=21408"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:18:53","slug":"current-elections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/governance\/secretariat\/elections\/current-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Current elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Council<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Academic Board<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notice of Election<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Election of the Deputy Chair of the Academic Board<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Term of office<em>: <\/em>1 April 2026 and concluding 31 March 2028<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Four (4) valid nominations were received for the position of Deputy Chair of the Academic Board by the close of nominations at 5:00pm on Wednesday 22 July 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An election will therefore be held to fill the position for the balance of the term of office from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2028.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The candidates are listed below in alphabetical order:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Brad CAREY<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kirsty HOLMES<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jonathan PAXMAN<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dylan STORER<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Voting instructions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The election will be conducted using ºìÌÒÊÓƵ\u2019s electronic voting system \u201c<strong>Simply Voting<\/strong>\u201d. On the day that voting opens, you will receive an email from Simply Voting which contains your Elector ID and a randomly generated password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please note, the generated email from Simply Voting may be sent to your junk or clutter mail folder. Please ensure that you check your junk mail if you cannot find the email. <a href=\"https:\/\/curtin.simplyvoting.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Click here to gain access to the Simply Voting website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you have entered your Elector ID and your randomly generated password, you may vote in the election.&nbsp; The list of candidates will appear in a random order.&nbsp; 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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In this election:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Voting will begin at <strong>9:00 am on Thursday 30 July 2026<\/strong> and close at <strong>5:00 pm on Thursday 13 August 2026. <\/strong>Please note that Simply Voting will not accept votes outside of these times.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must vote for at least one (1) candidate.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Place the numeral \u201c1\u201d in the box beside your candidate of first preference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You may choose to express a preference for some or all of the remaining candidates. Place the numerals \u201c2\u201d, \u201c3\u201d and so on in numerical order in the box beside the candidate or candidates for whom you wish to express a second or any subsequent preference.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simply Voting will invite you to check your ballot choices before you submit your vote.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once the vote is confirmed it may not be recalled and you will not be able to vote again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The candidate who receives the highest number of votes following the distribution of preferences will be declared elected to the position of Deputy Chair of the Academic Board.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Counting of votes and announcement of election result<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Votes will be counted as soon as practicable after the voting period ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The result of the election will be declared by the Returning Officer on Friday 14 August 2026 and all candidates will be notified of the election result in writing. The outcome of the election will be published on the Curtin Elections website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kristi Jarvis<\/strong><br>Director, Secretariat and Council Secretary<br>Returning Officer<\/p>\n\n\n<mimas-block \n        block-name=\"button\"\n        \n        data-align=\"left\"\n        role=\"complementary\"\n        aria-label=\"Button block\"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n\n    \n    \n<div class=\"block-heading hidden\"\n     data-segment=\"dom\"\n     data-style=\"\"\n     data-align=\"default\"\n>\n\n                                <h2 class=\"block-heading__title \" id=\"button-block\">Button block<\/h2>\n            \n                        \n                        \n            \n                <\/div>\n\n                    <a\n    href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/Notice-of-Election-Deputy-Chair-Final.pdf\"\n    class=\"button  button--black \"\n    target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Download Notice of Election [PDF 281 KB]\">Download Notice of Election [PDF 281 KB]<\/a>\n                    <a\n    href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/07\/Candidate-Statements-Ballot-Webpage-Deputy-Chair.pdf\"\n    class=\"button  button--black  filled\"\n    target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Download candidate statements [PDF 148 KB]\">Download candidate statements [PDF 148 KB]<\/a>\n    <\/mimas-block>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kalgoorlie Campus Council<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">If you have any questions, please contact the secretariat at <a href=\"mailto:secretariat@curtin.edu.au\">secretariat@curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can read more about the election process, and find answers to frequently asked questions on the elections page. <\/p>\n\n\n<mimas-block \n        block-name=\"button\"\n        \n        data-align=\"left\"\n        role=\"complementary\"\n        aria-label=\"Button block\"\n        data-segment=\"all\">\n\n    \n    \n<div class=\"block-heading hidden\"\n     data-segment=\"dom\"\n     data-style=\"\"\n     data-align=\"default\"\n>\n\n                                <h2 class=\"block-heading__title \" id=\"button-block\">Button block<\/h2>\n            \n                        \n                        \n            \n                <\/div>\n\n                    <a\n    href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/governance\/secretariat\/elections\/\"\n    class=\"button  button--black filled\"\n    target=\"_top\" aria-label=\"Read more about elections\">Read more about elections<\/a>\n    <\/mimas-block>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council Nil Academic Board Notice of Election Election of the Deputy Chair of the Academic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":892,"parent":17311,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[24,13,23,44,39,22,43],"class_list":["post-21408","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-academic-board","tag-council","tag-elections","tag-governance-services","tag-kalgoorlie-campus-council","tag-secretariat","tag-upcoming-elections"],"acf":{"page_components":[{"acf_fc_layout":"masthead","personalised":false,"dom":{"asset":{"img_position":"Center"},"image":{"ID":21229,"id":21229,"title":"Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled","filename":"Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-e1769748600238.jpg","filesize":130747,"url":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-e1769748600238.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/?attachment_id=21229","alt":"","author":"229","description":"","caption":"","name":"curtin-university-campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":21226,"date":"2024-01-12 02:42:07","modified":"2024-01-12 02:42:07","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":810,"height":540,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-740x370.jpg","medium-width":740,"medium-height":370,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-1920x1080.jpg","large-width":889,"large-height":500,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-1536x1025.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1025,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-e1769748600238.jpg","2048x2048-width":810,"2048x2048-height":540,"small":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-480x240.jpg","small-width":480,"small-height":240,"xlarge":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-1260x630.jpg","xlarge-width":1260,"xlarge-height":630,"xxlarge":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-1520x760.jpg","xxlarge-width":1520,"xxlarge-height":760,"hd":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-1920x960.jpg","hd-width":1920,"hd-height":960,"uhd":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/01\/Curtin-University-Campaign-2022-220215-081-scaled-1-2048x1280.jpg","uhd-width":2048,"uhd-height":1280}},"copy":{"title":"Current elections","content":"","subtitle":"","cta":[{"link":""}]}},"int":{"asset":{"img_position":"Center"},"image":false,"copy":{"title":"","content":"","subtitle":"","cta":false}}}],"controls":{"page_switch_toggle":false,"support_toggle":false,"breadcrumb_toggle":true,"navi_toggle":true,"section_nav_toggle":true,"alternate_font_toggle":false}},"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/annual-reports-480x240.jpg","author_meta":{"first_name":"Teale","last_name":"Reynolds","display_name":"Teale Reynolds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40239,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21408\/revisions\/40239"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}