Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the Indigenous Affairs Legislation Amendment Bill 2011. I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (3) together.

Leave granted.

I move government amendments (1) to (3):

(1) Title, page 1 (lines 2 and 3), omit “, the Indigenous Land Corporation”.

(2) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 2), omit “Schedules 1 and 2”, substitute “Schedule 1”.

(3) Schedule 2, page 5 (line 1) to page 6 (line 2), omit the Schedule.

These amendments will withdraw the Indigenous Land Corporation measure from the bill. The measure was going to introduce a power for the minister to make guidelines that the Indigenous Land Corporation must have regard to in deciding whether to perform its functions in support of a native title settlement and, if it decides to perform its functions in support of a native title settlement, in performing its functions in support of that settlement. The measure is being withdrawn from the bill pending further consultation on the proposed guidelines. With the withdrawal of the measure, consultations can continue without delaying the remaining measures of the bill. The other measures, as indicated earlier, are scheduling further Aboriginal land and amendments in connection with the election of members to the Torres Strait Regional Authority. These will now be able to progress with a view to passage as soon as possible.

Question agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.