Claire Moore (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Acting Special Minister of State, Senator Cormann. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Turnbull and Minister Cormann announced that the government would direct the Australian Bureau of Statistics rather than the Australian Electoral Commission to conduct a $120 million, and rising, opinion poll on marriage equality—a tactic to avoid the need to negotiate legislation through the parliament. Can the minister confirm that, as a result, protections and safeguards contained in the Commonwealth Electoral Act of 1918 will not apply to the Turnbull government's opinion poll?