House debates Northern Territory National Emergency Response Amendment (Alcohol) Bill 2007

Consideration in Detail

Thursday, 13 September 2007 House of Representatives

Warren Snowdon

Warren Snowdon Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia and Indigenous Affairs

11:27 am

Minister, I understand what you are trying to do here, but at the moment as this legislation reads, people travelling into prescribed areas—that is, national parks on Aboriginal land—will not be able to consume alcohol unless they get an exemption, as you have described.

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