Senate debates

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Bills

Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022; In Committee

6:47 pm

Photo of Dorinda CoxDorinda Cox (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Respectfully, that wasn't really an answer about the practical actions that your government are going to take. Last night at spillover estimates I asked NIAA a very direct question about $75 million that your government have allocated to this referendum, and they said, 'We have strategies.' No-one's actually telling us what those strategies are. In my home state of Western Australia, in the Northern Territory and in Queensland, we have people currently displaced by floods. How do you think those people are going to now, with your confidence, be able to get to the AEC? They are worried about surviving. They are worried about their families. They are worried about their livelihoods. They are not worried about prioritising getting to the AEC to be enrolled. So I would like to hear about the practical strategies.

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