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

It would be my preference that there be none. One of the reasons for allowing the Medicare card to be identification for the purposes of the electoral roll is that I want the people that you're talking about who might turn up on election day to be enrolled today, tomorrow, next week, next month—but well before election day. I'd certainly encourage all of those people to get on the roll. We're making it easier for them to get on the roll. I'd be hopeful that we wouldn't have anybody in the situation that you're talking about on election day, and that they would have been enrolled well and truly before that.