Dana Wortley (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Let me repeat it for those opposite:

The AEC considers that the measures announced by the Special Minister of State will address the issues raised about the signs and remove the risk of non-compliance with the Electoral Act.

Yet those opposite sit there and continue carping on about it, and then talk about wanting to pull back on the stimulus package, pull back on the buildings in schools—on school halls, on gymnasiums, on language centres, on the infrastructure that is being put in place. I see one senator over there shaking his head, but that is what those opposite are saying—they are saying that is what we should be doing. To do this would impact significantly on the economy, would impact significantly on those school communities that are very much—and I have visited many of them—looking forward to this new infrastructure being built on their school properties and to the students and the local communities having access to up-to-date libraries, state-of-the-art language centres and state-of-the-art science centres. (Time expired)