Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

The government does not support the amendments. The people of Australia will obviously, as Senator Brown has indicated, get the opportunity to cast their votes in respect of this at the election, given that there is a difference of policy, so the government does not see the need, as we have said before, to inject specific uses or specific tasks to the Australian Electoral Commission that are not its core business.