The Special Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform has released its recommendations on changing the way we vote in federal elections.
The committee is recommending a referendum be held with both proportional representation and the current first past the post being on the ballot.
Green Party leader Elizabeth May points out a parliamentary committee back in 1921 called first past the post to be unsuitable whenever there are more than two policial parties contesting an election.
The committee rejected mandatory voting and voting online.
In a supplementary report on electoral reform, the federal Liberals say the committee recommendations are rushed, too radical and unnecessarily hasty.
Conservative M-P Scott Reid, who served on the Electorial Reform Committee, says all of the polls are clear that people, by and large, want a referendum on the issue.
He adds, of the 22 thousand respondents to the survey put out by the Electoral Reform Committee, 61 per cent, leaving out the undecideds, supported a referendum.
