Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

This is the nature of a lease. There is the capacity to say, ‘I would like to set up a power station here so we can provide infrastructure,’ which may be regarded as a sublease, although at some stage it could be then handed over to the control, for example, of the power company in the Northern Territory. These are just mechanical aspects of a lease under which the Commonwealth, on the basis of an emergency response, may see fit to sublet a part to ensure that, on the basis of the emergency response, some level of amenity could be provided.