Family First says the South Australian Government has shown it will not work with other parties after two Labor MLCs resigned from a parliamentary committee reviewing electoral processes.
Family First MLC Robert Brokenshire's motion to form a select committee was supported in the Legislative Council this week.
But the Labor members of the investigation Kyam Maher and Tung Ngo now have resigned, which Mr Brokenshire has condemned as a bad move.
"The Government have decided that they would rather take control of their own committee, to me that's a backward step because it actually takes the democracy out of a select committee and the democratic inquiry that we proposed," he said.
Opposition frontbencher Stephen Wade says Labor is reluctant to improve the electoral system.
"The Government's determination not to be on this committee highlights that they're not interested in constructive bipartisan solutions," he said.
"There are elements of the electoral system that favour them, they want that to continue to favour them."
Labor is taking a different approach, as Attorney-General John Rau says a non-partisan standing committee of both houses of Parliament will consider electoral reform issues.
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