Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will not be supporting this motion. We proposed an alternative approach to make sure that the destruction of cultural heritage, like what happened in Juukan Gorge, doesn't happen again. Our bipartisan referral to the Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia can not only get to the bottom of what has occurred here but, potentially, deliver real change.

First Nations people and all Australians deserve answers about why this happened and how we can prevent it from happening again. This is 46,000 years of history and heritage; it is deeply distressing. First Nations history and culture are fundamental to our nation.