House debates Questions without Notice

Indigenous Communities

Tuesday, 23 May 2006 House of Representatives

Mal Brough

Mal Brough Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs

2:23 pm

That is unacceptable, I say to the member for Sydney. The Prime Minister has said:

… I have the strongest possible view that every citizen of this country, whatever their ethnicity, is entitled to the protection of Australian law but is also subject to Australian law in all its dispensations and I do not believe in any shape or form in the application of customary law by our courts or anywhere in this country.

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