Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

My response to Senator Bragg was actually about the fact that we've referred to data from 2016-17 to now, and that at no point did we say that the activity was overwhelmingly out there. We know that if we don't close this loophole, it leaves open to the general broader community that that behaviour can start again. The fact is that this loophole was never closed. When you were in government the then Treasurer, Scott Morrison, did not close this loophole as he said he would. That's the why we're standing here today to close that loophole.