Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I'm assuming you're talking about a homeless person who is not currently on the electoral roll. It's our wish to try and increase the number of people participating in this referendum. We've made some changes that make it easier for people to get on the electoral roll, and I referred to a couple of those changes today. One of them is the use of the Medicare card to get yourself on the roll, and the other one is the use of a naturalisation certificate. I've asked the AEC to focus on trying to increase the level of enrolment between now and the referendum, and I believe that they are doing that. As time goes by and we get closer to the referendum, I think we'll see the number of people on the roll increase. That's certainly my wish. That's certainly what happened, for instance, in the plebiscite that dealt with the issue of same-sex marriage. I'm hopeful that the same processes will apply.