Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

I would say, and I imagine that in doing so I would be joined by all other senators, that we are deeply sorry for their anguish, for their loss, for the pain felt in those families and those communities, for the circumstances that led to those individuals being in custody and for the failings in relation to systems or communities that brought them to the point of being in custody, but that we are determined to continue to try to find pathways to reduce the rate of Indigenous incarceration, that we will, as governments have been—state and territory, Commonwealth, Labor and Liberal—continue to implement the recommendations and to go beyond the recommendations in a number of other policies and measures most recently outlined in the National Agreement on Closing the Gap and that we're committed to continuing to work with communities in partnership to achieve those outcomes. (Time expired)