Public votes in Australian contests: the terms come first

Le Palmarès explains how contests with public voting operate in Australia: the awards and polls that come around every year, how platforms tally votes, and where organisers' terms stand on paid support. Other countries are brought in when they shed light on a point.

1. Business and consumer awards with public voting in Australia Business and consumer awards with public voting in Australia: who runs them, when voting opens, who is allowed to vote and how organisers check the results they receive.
2. City, tourism, university and museum public votes in Australia City public vote contests in Australia span photography, tourism and museum awards. Here is who runs them, when voting opens and how organisers count the online votes.
3. Annual public-vote contests in Australia A factual guide to annual online contests in Australia with public voting: organisers, voting windows, entry rules, and how winners are announced each year.
4. Restaurant, food and hospitality best-of votes in Australia Which Australian food and hospitality awards carry a genuine public vote, who runs them, when voting opens and closes, and what each organiser's own rules say.
5. Online contests and public votes in Australia A reference guide to online contests in Australia, the public vote competitions that run, and the rules organisers and regulators apply.
6. Data protection, age limits and prize reporting for contest entries in Australia Contest data protection in Australia rests on the Privacy Act 1988, express consent for sensitive details, state age rules for promotions, and honest collection notices.
7. Is buying contest votes allowed in Australia? What the rules and the platforms say Buying contest votes in Australia sits outside the published rules of most public votes: what platform terms say, what organisers can see, and what it costs an entry.
8. Choosing a vote service for a contest in Australia: a checklist A vote service checklist for Australia that checks dates, eligibility rules, personal information and proof against pages from NSW Fair Trading, the Logies and the Privacy Act 1988.
9. Sports fan votes and awards in Australia: who runs them and how the votes are counted A reference guide to sports fan awards in Australia: which competitions run public online votes, who organises them, when voting opens and how it closes.
10. Photo, music, talent and beauty contests with online voting in Australia A factual guide to talent contests with voting in Australia: who runs the public vote, how organisers count it, and when each window closes.
11. Voting and entry platforms used in Australia: what their terms say The entry tools behind Australian public votes, from Gleam to Woobox, what their terms do with duplicate entries, and what organisers can see in the log.
12. School and youth competitions with online voting in Australia Which youth and university contests in Australia run a public vote, what the organisers' own rules say about online voting, consent and prizes, and how manipulation is handled.