Luke Gosling (Solomon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's been wonderful to see so many government ministers embrace the Northern Territory so fully and straight out of the gate. We hit the ground running with the Prime Minister's visit in early June, when he was coming back from his visit to Indonesia. He was able to announce the NASA rocket launches that were held in north-east Arnhem Land. He's back there this weekend for the Garma Festival, along with Indigenous Australians minister Linda Burney; Senator Pat Dodson, who's a special envoy for the Uluru Statement from the Heart; and our fellow Territory members Senator Malarndirri McCarthy and the member for Lingiari, Marion Scrymgour.

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, wasted no time in getting up to the NT last month to visit Kakadu, and the north Australia minister, Madeleine King, came up to Darwin a few weeks ago for a roundtable with stakeholders. Trade and tourism minister Senator Don Farrell also came up on Territory Day to meet with our local tourism operators. Jason Clare went straight out to remote Arnhem Land to learn about how our First Nations Territory kids walk in two worlds. Anne Aly, the Minister for Early Childhood Education, also came up to meet with stakeholders. I'm so glad to see that the Territory's getting so much attention, the attention we rightfully deserve, and I urge all other ministers to come and visit the Territory soon.