Senate debates
Thursday, 16 August 2007
Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (Welfare Payment Reform) Bill 2007; Northern Territory National Emergency Response Bill 2007; Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and Other Legislation Amendment (Northern Territory National Emergency Response and Other Measures) Bill 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008
In Committee
11:42 pm
Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source
The reasons that are laid out in these provisions clearly indicate that those persons for whom exemptions would be granted would be those people who were not necessarily a part of that community. They may well be travelling, for whatever reason. That is the nature of that discretion. It is not designed to select people by their ethnicity; it is just a decision. It is really based on where they live. We have gone into some of that in previous questions.
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