In a heated Senate estimates session on Thursday the AEC commissioner, Tom Rogers, rejected the idea it had behaved in a partisan manner. The form is voluntary, with answers to be published by the AEC if candidates choose to fill it in. Citizenship crisis: coalition resists referendum in favour of new rules for candidates Read moreIn Senate estimates Labor senator Kimberley Kitching suggested “the form is not complex”. Giles said it was “difficult to understand the AEC’s rationale, the basis on which a recommendation has been given to select the [28 July] date”. Cormann also said the Labor candidates should have resigned sooner, after the Re Canavan high court decision in October.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2018 18:00 UTC