Alex White (Labour)

How anybody could disagree with Senator Fitzgerald's contention that it is reprehensible for the Government to force people to go to court to have their basic democratic right to representation vindicated beats me. If the Government wants to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court, that is a matter for it, but it should not be done to block the other by-elections from being held. They should not be made contingent on the Government going to the Supreme Court. If there is an issue to be resolved by the Supreme Court, let it do so.