Bob Day (SA, Family First Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Special Minister of State, Senator Cormann, regarding Senate voting changes. I refer to public comments made by the minister on 15 February regarding Senate voting changes, when he said:

The Government hasn't made a decision on the way forward.

Yesterday, in evidence to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, the Australian Electoral Commission testified that it had received a copy of the voting change legislation on 11 February. In saying what he said on the 15th, how could the minister say the government had not made a decision when it had already drawn up a bill and sent it to the Electoral Commission on the 11th?