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

The Labor Party took transparency provisions to the last election, and, in the almost three years of this parliament, we have had inquiry after inquiry into the best way of ensuring the ongoing electoral system in this country to ensure that democracy survives in this country and to ensure that democracy prospers in this country. Those committee hearings and the resultant legislation which you now see before you tonight are a reflection of all of those discussions which we have conducted in this parliament with the Australian people, and I'm very firmly of the view that the Australian people want this legislation.