Ben Morton (Tangney, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister and Cabinet) Share this | Hansard source

The most important issue in front of the people of Australia is this one, according to those opposite. Of course, in the introduction of these bills, the government is ensuring that the Australian Electoral Commission is resourced to ensure that it does not impact in relation to times at the voting booth.

You know what? What this is showing is that those opposite are going to use every excuse to fight against a provision that is used in a lot of liberal, like democracies around the world. They talk about voter suppression. I just want to again reiterate: of the three last elections in Queensland, one of them had voter ID; two of them didn't. The one with voter ID, with the highest level of integrity, had a higher turnout than the two without it. They will use any excuse, those opposite, to defeat this legislation. I tell you what: on every question they ask, I begin to wonder more and more about what their motivations might be in relation to these issues. As I said, under the way this has been designed, which those opposite even didn't wait to read before they took the action they took this morning—

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