Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Very briefly, in response: I can indicate that I am grateful that the Australian Greens have indicated their support for this amendment. I will not seek to divide; it is clear that both the coalition and the government oppose it. The one question that I do have for the government—because I think that at least there is an acknowledgement that these matters need to be dealt with—is that I thought we could have dealt with this specific issue, where there is an anomaly and where there has been an abuse that was manifest at the South Australian state election in 2010, although, I know that Senator Feeney, who has got the carriage of this bill, was the architect of the Labor Party's stunning win in South Australia in 2006—