Senate debates

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Bills

Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022; In Committee

5:47 pm

Photo of James PatersonJames Paterson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Cyber Security) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, thank you for tabling this statement. I'm not sure that your definition of 'long' and my definition of 'long' are the same. This is a single-sided, double-spaced dot-pointed piece of paper. It might have taken two minutes to read into the Hansard. But, nonetheless, thank you. Really the only first dot points are relevant in any case, which read:

      Am I to understand from this that the Attorney-General and the government have also not sought any advice—and you admitted you had not—about the foreign interference risks in the referendum?

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