Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move three amendments to the Selection of Bills Committee report as circulated in the chamber: Nos (3), (4) and (5).

Leave granted.

I move:

(3) At the end of the motion, add:

"and, in respect of the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Foreign Influences and Offences) Bill 2022, the bill be referred immediately to the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 25 March 2022".

(4) At the end of the motion, add:

"and, in respect of the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill 2022, the bill be referred immediately to the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 25 March 2022".

(5) At the end of the motion, add:

"and, in respect of the Electoral Legislation Amendment (COVID Enfranchisement) Bill 2022, the bill be referred immediately to the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by 25 March 2022".

These amendments pertain to removing the three latest electoral bills from being rammed through this chamber, because we would like to refer those three electoral bills to a committee for scrutiny in the ordinary manner of all legislation, because no-one should be passing legislation that they haven't even seen until 24 hours ago. So these amendments refer each of these three electoral bills—one about COVID enfranchisement, one about authorisations and one about foreign influences—to the Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee for inquiry by 25 March. This is a fairly tight inquiry time frame as it is, but—people are looking at me strangely.