Following the South Australian ban on corflute election signage, MP for Mayo Rebekha Sharkie is calling for limits on federal election material.

She has called on the Federal Parliament to stop the political election advertising circus, including how to vote cards and other electoral pollution.

The South Australian Parliament recently passed legislation banning the use of corflute or other election posters from public roads or road-related areas, including stobie and light poles. 

The new laws also limit number of corflute or other electoral advertising posters that can be displayed by a candidate within 50 metres of a polling booth on election days and during pre-polling.

Ms Sharkie says Australians are concerned at the actual and visual pollution which occurs every time an election is held. 

"Australian voters have been confronted in the lead-up to each election by spiralling use of corflute and other posters throughout our public spaces, single use plastic wrap advertising proliferating all over polling places, and people handing out huge stacks of 'how to vote' papers.

"Having monitored elections in several countries as an official observer for the Australian Parliament, I've seen that not all countries allow the visual and environmental assault of these electoral advertising materials. 

“Nor does every country require voters to run the gauntlet of people handing out how to vote materials on their way into a polling booth, only to often put them straight in the bin afterwards. 

“How to vote information could easily be displayed at each booth, rather than multiple versions being handed to every voter."

"South Australia has showed leadership by acting positively to limit the deluge of actual and visual pollution which confronts voters at each election.

"This ever-escalating circus around elections is a choice, and it is one that the majority of us would not choose. It costs a lot in both environmental and financial terms.“

Ms Sharkie intends to introduce a Private Members Bill to the federal parliament in the next few weeks.

“Members of the public can lend their support by contacting their Federal MP and asking them to help Stop the Circus."