The findings,from a Coalition majority on the committee led by Liberal National Party senator James McGrath,included a divisive suggestion to drop compulsory preferential voting in favour of optional preferential voting.
One Labor member of the committee,Queensland MP Milton Dick,said the report should be rejected because it would undermine the country’s compulsory voting system.
"The report that the government members of[the joint standing committee on electoral matters] have produced from the committee’s inquiry into the 2019 federal election is an outrage,"he said.
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“Instead of proposing considered,sensible electoral reform,the government has used this as just another opportunity to silence its critics,suppress the vote and stop unions and grass-roots campaigners from participating in our democracy."
Labor's spokesman on electoral matters,South Australian senator Don Farrell,said the report was a"window on to a very dark future"under the Morrison government.
"Labor opposes these disgraceful plans to undermine the very principles of our Australian democratic system and has tabled a dissenting report proposing measures designed to continue our commitment to transparency and accountability,"he said.