The Prime Minister has written to the Queensland Premier offering to introduce legislation giving the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) the power to investigate allegations of electoral rorting in the federal electorate of Fisher. 

John Howard has also asked the Australian Federal Police to investigate claims of vote-rigging in the Queensland seat of Hinkler. 

The legislation would authorise the CJC to conduct investigations into allegations of electoral fraud in the 1987 poll for the seat of Fisher, won at the time by former Labor minister Michael Lavarch.