Senate debates

Wednesday, 22 March 2023

Bills

Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Amendment Bill 2022; In Committee

6:27 pm

Photo of Jane HumeJane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

I just have one last question for the minister and then I hope that we can progress this. Having heard the answers you have given the chamber today, Minister, I am interested to know: if this referendum were on a different issue, if it weren't about an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, if it were about something far more basic, would you change the mechanism and the machinery by which Australians go to the polls? Would you consider 'yes' campaign and 'no' campaign organisations, as there have been in previous referenda, or would you persist with this mechanism and this machinery the way you have established and described it today?

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