Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Loans provided to political parties in the context that Senator Lambie suggests are disclosable. These arrangements have to be and should be transparent. The issue that Senator Lambie is raising in the broad is not the object of this bill. The object of this bill in relation to the interaction of state and federal electoral laws is that state laws should govern the conduct of state elections and federal laws should govern the conduct of federal elections. Obviously, it is open to any individual senator either to pursue amendments to this bill on matters that they wish to raise or pursue or to move a private senators' bill if there is an issue that, in the view of individual senators, ought to be pursued.