Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The point I make here is that it has been non-Indigenous people who have profited, who have been the source of the rivers of grog mentioned in the Angry Australians by Ward McNally in 1974. I ask the minister: what will be done to look at how that profit system worked and what checks were put in place by the white community, which do not suffer the discrimination—for example, the removal of the Racial Discrimination Act—which the Indigenous people are now suffering through this legislation? What can the government say about this destructive behaviour by the community which brought grog to Australia at the expense of Indigenous people and who have made huge profits out of that? What has the Commonwealth done about that and, now that it is taking this action, what does it have to say about the profiting from liquor at the expense of Indigenous people, who have not been the source of it, who do not have it as part of their culture? What does the government have to say about that?