Senator FAULKNER (7:36 PM) —I am surprised that Senator Murray found Senator Minchin so persuasive—

Senator Minchin —That is not very surprising.

Senator FAULKNER —Why? I never find you persuasive, I must say. To use the headgear analogy, Senator Murray, if I were to vote for this, I suspect my party would firmly place a dunce's cap on my head—that is, if I was left with my head still attached some where between the level of my chin and my shoulder blades.

I have got to say, as I think I indicated before the break, Senator Murray, that the Labor Party has a clear and consistent position in relation to this. We do think this is a very important part of political activity in the federal electoral process in this country. We consider it a very important right of political parties and political candidates to be able to provide advice on election day through the mechanism of providing a how-to-vote card to electors in relation to voting information. We also consider it an important democratic right of electors to either take that information if they care to or reject it if they care to at the polling booth.

As I have indicated previously, the opposition will not be supporting these amendments, even though we ought to acknowledge that Senator Murray has somewhat modified his position in the course of debate on this particular amendment.

Amendments not agreed to.