Senate debates

Monday, 19 June 2006

Electoral and Referendum Amendment (Electoral Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2006

In Committee

6:07 pm

Photo of Joe LudwigJoe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I much prefer ‘the coalition’. I want to know how they can say that this amendment is not an automatic, indiscriminate restriction and that it falls within an acceptable margin of appreciation. That would be helpful to understand the debate. I am seeking an answer to that from the coalition. What I have covered more broadly are the aims and objectives, and the issues concerning the case law that surrounds this. I need an explanation of the justification from this government—

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