And so it was that the Greens put forward an amendment that the other members were not prepared to accept and support, and so we had this bizarre position whereby it was open to the National Party to highlight the principled opposition of many people on the other side of politics, let's just say, who in many cases would have said that it would be right to highlight the inconsistency, the anomaly of the fact that a law was passing through this House that says that some prisoners are able to vote; others are not, and yet the law change has been characterised by its proponents as being a matter of human rights. Well, if it's a matter of human rights and if all prisoners are human, regardless of whether they're serving less than three years or three years or more, surely all prisoners should be allowed to vote. 