Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Again, I remind those opposite that the options paper they're running a scare campaign on was issued by their government and that the propositions which have been put to me by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate are about state laws. I suggest she put them to the state government. Finally, I remind the opposition of this: there was once bipartisan support for updating national laws to better protect First Nations heritage. There were, I think, two parliamentary reports, chaired by the member for Leichhardt. There was a time when those opposite were not prepared to sacrifice that principle in pursuit of the sort of scare campaign that we have come to expect from Senator Cash.