Senator FAULKNER (—Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (12.15 p.m.) —I move opposition amendment No. 4:

(4)  Schedule 2, page 6 (after line 11), after item 2, insert:

2A At the end of section 125

Add:

  (2)  The Register of Political Parties must include the names of the 500 members of each registered political party relied on by that party to qualify for registration.

I will not spend a great deal of time on this because there are some time concerns. As you can sometimes know in politics, I have got the general hint, the big hint, that this amendment is unlikely to find broad support. Let me not waste too much of the committee's time, given that this is a view the opposition holds but one that is not shared more generally in the chamber. This is an amendment that would mean that the list of 500 members relied on by a political party for registration would become part of the public register of political parties. I know that concerns have been raised about this from a privacy perspective. I accept that some of those concerns are legitimate. I realise this issue is not going to find majority support in the committee at this stage; nevertheless, I think it is something that will be revisited in the future. Though I commend the amendment to the committee, I am expecting a major rebuff very shortly.