Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

South Australia ) ( I would like to contribute to the discussion we are having here. I am inspired to do so, seeing that inspiration was taking hold in the chamber just before, to address some of the issues related to Senator Xenophon's specific amendment but also to address some of the broader issues that Senators Ludlam and Ryan have both so eloquently addressed. Senator Xenophon's amendment, as he has highlighted, follows from concerns related to the most recent South Australian election. That 2010 election saw some reprehensible conduct. Elections, sadly, do from time to time. In that instance the Labor Party in South Australia decided that dressing up as Family First volunteers and handing out how-to-vote cards pur­porting to be Family First how-to-vote cards that directed preferences in a manner—