Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

We are in furious agreement about how well the AEC is going to conduct this referendum. Let's leave it to them. They know what their job is. They're professional people. If there is likely to be an issue, I'm sure I'll hear from the electoral commissioner himself, because in the past, when I've been the shadow SMOS, he's contacted me about this or that issue of concern. I'm sure that during the last federal election he made contact with the government about issues that he might have been concerned about. But I don't think we should have any fear whatsoever. This is going to be a professionally conducted referendum to the standard that we expect, and these changes we're bringing about today are going to assist in that process.