Senate debates

Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Bills

Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020; In Committee

12:34 pm

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

Anyone who breaches the law should, of course, be subject to the penalties that come with that breach of the law. But you're assuming that everyone will just breach the law. I'm assuming that, overwhelmingly, Australians seek to comply with the law. Where that is not the case—of course, that's why the penalties are there. So they are enforced and imposed in these circumstances.

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