Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to correct an answer I provided in Senate question time today.

Leave granted.

I thank the chamber. This is in response to a question from Senator Rice earlier today, in relation to the marriage law survey. I was asked a question in relation to, among other things, the closure of the electoral rolls, and I indicated to the chamber that the electoral rolls, for the purposes of the marriage law survey, would close at 6 pm on 24 August. In fact, the rolls will close at midnight on 24 August, local time, and I thought it was important to correct the record at the earliest opportunity. The initial advice was that it would be 6 pm, but the decision was subsequently made to extend that to midnight.