About Eletoral things on last Saturday

Last Saturday, it was election day in NSW in Australia. I didn't do it because I am not an Australia Citizen, but my husband did. I need to know how to the vote in here so we went to our locat seat. The booth was in a pubilc school, someone was standing at the gate and gave us some pamphlets about the election. This is a new thing for me. In China they have different ways-- if you have a job you can elect in your work place or in your suburb, if you haven't got a job you only do that in your suburb. The situation in China is that one party is in power, so you just choose and tick some person' s name in the list.