Australian Politics

...impossible to read the Bill as a whole and make sense of it. The only way of doing it is to look at each amendment and figure out how it will alter the existing provisions in the Commonwealth Electoral Act and then try and work out how it all hangs together. Now, to do that properly would take weeks.

But we don't have weeks, because the Labor Government and the Coalition Opposition have done a deal behind closed doors and want this rushed before Parliament before anyone—like me—can point out what's wrong with it.

Now that's dreadful from a democratic accountability point of view. A Bill that's so complex and has such a profound impact upon our democratic system requires proper scrutiny.

Yiiikes.