House debates

Tuesday, 5 September 2017

Bills

Electoral and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2017; Second Reading

7:15 pm

Photo of Andrew WallaceAndrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'll be back! We will be back to reintroduce schedule 2. I think it's important although, strictly speaking, I understand it's not part of this bill, but schedule 2 will make it a criminal offence for people who misrepresent and pretend to be representing a government department or authority. Clearly, those people on the other side from GetUp! and the ALP misrepresented the situation at the 2016 election. We will be back. We will introduce criminal provisions that will see that those people, should they do it again, end up in court and suffer the sanctions of criminal penalties.

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