Senate debates

Thursday, 3 December 2020

Bills

Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Bill 2020, Australia's Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2020; In Committee

10:29 am

Photo of Concetta Fierravanti-WellsConcetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I would envisage, as part of the stocktake that you have indicated to the chamber, that it would include approaches to the states and territories, including the Northern Territory, which to this day has been reluctant to release any of those documents publicly or, as I understand it, to the Commonwealth itself. As part of that stocktake would we envisage that without the cooperation of the states and territories—and in particular without the cooperation of the Northern Territory Labor government—that we won't be in the position to make a comprehensive assessment of what the Port of Darwin issue is?

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