Senate debates

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Bills

Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment (Economic Empowerment) Bill 2021; In Committee

6:56 pm

Photo of Kimberley KitchingKimberley Kitching (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Labor will not be supporting these amendments. The bill already provides for the new corporation to have an Aboriginal controlled board and an appropriately timed statutory review. The new corporation should be afforded the opportunity to demonstrate success from its strategic investments. A review in just three years time would not provide adequate time and risks setting the new corporation up to fail, thus undermining rather than supporting increased Aboriginal control over the funds of the ABA. There will be opportunities to scrutinise the corporation's strategic investment plan and progress reports, which Labor supports being tabled in parliament. We intend to make full use of these opportunities to ensure that the corporation is operating appropriately.

The CHAIR: We are dealing with amendments (1) to (7) on sheet 1449, revised, and moved by leave by Senator Thorpe. The question is that the amendments be agreed to.

Question negatived.

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