[Ephemera relating to the Australian federal election campaigns : including press releases, policy speeches, advertising material, how to vote cards, etc.]

Elections are for the House of Representatives and half the Senate. A simultaneous (or double) dissolution election is for both the House of Representatives and the entire Senate. Election dates since Federation: 1901, 1903, 1906 ; 1910, 1913, 1914 (double), 1917, 1919 ; 1922, 1925, 1928, 1929 (HR) ; 1931, 1934, 1937 ; 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949 ; 1951 (double), 1953 (half S), 1954 (HR), 1955, 1958 ; 1961, 1963 (HR), 1964 (half S), 1966 (HR), 1967 (half S), 1969 (HR) ; 1970 (half S), 1972 (HR), 1974 (double), 1975 (double), 1977 ; 1980, 1983 (double), 1984, 1987 (double) ; 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019.

Referendums are the formal process of amending the Commonwealth Constitution of which there have been eighteen involving forty-two separate amendment attempts of which only eight have been carried. There have been eight occasions where the referendums have been held simultaneously with the elections in 1906, 1910, 1913, 1919, 1928, 1946, 1974, 1984. These maybe included here.