SpeechDAN BIDOIS (National—Northcote): Madam Speaker I cannot believe what I've just heard from the member who's just sat down Gareth Hughes. Let me ask the member this: whose Supplementary Order Paper (SOP) was it that was passed last week? Was it the Green Party's SOP? Oh who was it? It was Golriz Ghahraman's SOP 518. Let me ask a second question. If the member who put the amendment forward to this House didn't want it passed why did they put it on the Table in the first place? This is an appalling process. I cannot understand the amount of hours that we've lost to fix a stuff-up from this Government to correct an inconsistency that would have been able to give Corrections officers the ability to enrol voters in prison who can't even have the right to vote. Whose stuff-up was that? It was the Green Party stuff-up and that is symbolic of the shambles and incompetence of this coalition Government. It is an absolute shambles this process that we've just been discussing today but also the bill that we've been discussing over the last few months has been a shambles from this Government.Let me come back to something that Michael Wood said around standing up for what you believe in. Well on this side of the House we do stand up for what we believe in. We stand up for: if you do a crime you do the time. We stand up for victims' rights and we stand up for proper democratic process which we've failed to see in this bill and in the one that's gone before the House in the last few months. Where is the integrity of this Government? In lockdown when there are far more important priorities we were discussing giving prisoners the right to vote. Today we've lost 4½ hours of House time to fix a stuff-up from this Labour-led coalition Government. Not only that—Hon Shane Jones: Soft on crime! Soft on crime!DAN BIDOIS: Ha ha! That is the member of the North who's going to get a harsh reality in the next couple of months of just how few people in the North actually support him.Matt King: He's not the member of the North.DAN BIDOIS: He's not the member of the North. We've got a great member of the North right down here in Matt King. Let me come to the content of the bill that we've been debating—ASSISTANT SPEAKER (Hon Ruth Dyson): That would be good excellent idea.DAN BIDOIS: —the last few months. The content of the bill we disagree with fundamentally on this side of the House. When you break the law you have your rights stripped away from you as a punishment for breaking the law whether it's your right to freedom of expression your right to be autonomous and do liberty—you know go about things on a day-to-day basis—and your right to vote. That is why we have opposed this bill. May I say we also oppose this bill because we care about victims' rights. We heard that in the Justice Committee loud and clear—the number of victims who still are suffering from the consequences of those who have been put away for those crimes. So we acknowledge them and that's why we've voted that bill down and that is why we're continuing to vote this bill down in the House tonight.But I just want to summarise to the House tonight that we have lost 4½ hours fixing a stuff-up from this Government when we could have been—as my colleague Paulo Garcia said talking about support for small business—talking about how to get people that are out of work back into work. That is what we care about and what we will stand up for on this side of the House. What we will stand up for is priorities from this House and this Government and this Government has had a shambolic list of priorities. They would rather focus on giving prisoners the right to vote rather than getting our economy back moving. We condemn this bill in the House.