Chris Ellison (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

The government opposes this amendment. It does so on the basis that we will have testing experts engaged to develop the questions and they will ensure that those questions go through a proper validation and development process. I believe it is not appropriate to have wider testing or sampling of focus groups where you have the Australian Electoral Commission involved. In any event, testing Australian-born people might not be appropriate because the cohort that you are looking at testing, by very necessity, was not born in Australia. They are just some of the aspects of it. Again, we will be monitoring this on an ongoing basis and, in a very formal way, having a review in three years time. All of that will be under public purview, and I believe that this amendment is not necessary for those reasons.