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An Act to change the terms of senators so that they are no longer of fixed duration and to provide that Senate elections and House of Representatives elections are always held on the same day. Do you approve of this proposed alteration? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Outcome | Not carried, A majority "yes" vote nationally, but in only two states. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The Constitution Alteration (Terms of Senators) Bill 1984,[1] was the third unsuccessful proposal to alter the Australian Constitution to require that Senate of Australia and House of Representatives elections be constitutionally enforced to occur on the same day. It was put to voters for approval in a referendum held on 1 December 1984.
This was the first referendum in which the electors in the territories were counted towards the national total (but not counted toward any state total) following the 1977 Australian referendum (Referendums) which enabled this.