Senate debates

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Documents

Election of Senators; Order for the Production of Documents

12:13 pm

Photo of Richard Di NataleRichard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased to be able to outline the details of the agreement with the coalition. The agreement is as follows: the Greens have had a longstanding position to see Senate voting reform implemented. We put that to the government, and the government agreed.

It is interesting, though: I have another agreement here. It is an agreement from 2010, and it is an agreement with the Labor Party. In fact, it is a written agreement. And in that written agreement we have a commitment from the Labor Party to support the Greens policy of campaign finance reform—political donations reform: lowering the disclosure threshold, prevention of donation splitting and preventing foreign donations. In fact, there is also an agreement to reform electoral voting in the Senate.

When it comes to a written agreement, we have the Labor Party walking away from the agreement on Senate voting reform and on campaign finance reform. The Labor Party need to recognise that their enemies are over there, not over here.

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