Labor will not be supporting these amendments. As stated in the explanatory memorandum, the bill has been designed to transfer responsibility for making beneficial payments under the land rights act from the minister to the NTAI Corporation. Conferring an advisory role on the NTAI Corporation could potentially undermine this intention and give rise to confusion about its function.

The CHAIR (18:54): The question is that amendments (1) and (2) on sheet 1454, as moved by Senator Thorpe, be agreed to.

Question negatived.