Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will not be supporting this motion, even though there are elements of it that Labor supports, and I have relayed this to Senator Waters. We don't believe that electoral reform will be delivered through moving formal motions in this place. We think it requires substantive debate and is best dealt with through draft legislation. Labor has legislation in the Senate. We look forward to debating that at the next sitting, and we look forward to the Greens support for our bills. We do believe there needs to be electoral reform to protect democracy, and we'll be proceeding with Senator Farrell's bill at the next sitting.