Sue Lines (WA, Deputy-President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We've seen the latest stunt by the Morrison government as they intend to introduce legislation into this place that will seek to disenfranchise voters. They're saying that it will rule out rorts. Of course, it won't. You will have to take a form of ID to a polling booth if the legislation gets here and gets through the Senate. We don't have electronic voting; we use paper rolls, so you can still vote as many times as you like.

The reality is that we don't have a problem with our democracy in this country. We don't have a problem with our voting system. Yet those over there are so desperate to cling to power that they think that disenfranchising First Nations people, the elderly and people from non-English-speaking backgrounds will somehow enable them to cling to power. Well, it won't, because Australians have seen through them and can't wait to vote them out.