Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Seniors) Share this | Hansard source

Let me make the position quite clear. I said with regard to the closing of the rolls that it is something we would readdress in government and I set out all the reasons why that is the case and cited various tranches of the High Court judgments to support that position. We are not attempting to oppose that provision in this bill. But the Special Minister of State is also quite right: I am definitely, absolutely and positively trying to deny the right to vote to the man, a teacher, who got a two-year sentence for sexually abusing three young school boys on camping trips. Yes, I would like to disenfranchise that man from voting; you apparently would not.

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