Ms Catherine Lane:

We are supportive of Mr. Doorley's comments about compulsory voting being a last resort and trying to reform the existing mechanisms. In our submission we welcomed the recommendation on pre-registration. I was involved in many community organisations that delivered those active citizenship workshops at local level but they are poorly resourced and there is not any real investment in that kind of voter education and participation. It is left to community and civil society organisations to try to bridge that gap. We need investment in those mechanisms before resorting to mandatory voting.