House debates Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Township Leasing) Bill 2007

Second Reading

Wednesday, 13 June 2007 House of Representatives

Mal Brough

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

11:23 am

The reality is that you do not have the leadership of your former party president, Warren Mundine, an Indigenous man of this country, who fully understands the needs of his people and says that people should have the right to own their own property. The two members opposite sit in this parliament and, unlike many others on the other side who have embraced these concepts, do not say that Indigenous people should have the right to choose. The member for Lingiari and his hatchet men have been in Nguiu trying their hardest to persuade the traditional owners not to agree.

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