National Tally Room

The tally room was set up in the Budawang Building at Exhibition Park in Canberra (EPIC) in the northern suburbs of Canberra, the national capital city of Australia. A former venue, in the late 1970s, was the then newly built hall at Belconnen High School, a high school in the Canberra district of Belconnen. At the 1996 federal election, the Australian Institute of Sport was used as a venue for the tally room. The tally room was fitted out by the AEC for the national elections; and was also used for live broadcasts by media outlets, normally led by the Australian television networks. Over 700 people worked in the tally room on the evening of the election. The National Tally Room was replaced by an online Virtual Tally Room, and the tally board was donated to the Museum of Australian Democracy. ==Gallery==

National Tally Room 2010 media scrum.JPG|Television sets at the rear of the room, behind a media scrum around Bob Brown, former leader of the Australian Greens. National Tally Room 2010 board-change.JPG|Main board being changed; operators rotate the numbers board from behind. National Tally Room Budawang Building 2010 outside.JPG|Queues for members of the public to enter the National Tally Room, 9pm 21 August 2010. ==See also==