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

These guys do not like to be happy, President! They don't want people to be happy. The contrast between that side and this side is we want to see people with dignity in work. We believe in that. You believe in income management and punitive work-for-the-dole practices. So when you abolished the CDEP, you ran a wrecking ball through communities—you did, right across communities—and we are still trying to fix the mess from that period. We are working much more closely with our communities in regional and remote areas than you did.

Senator Price, I haven't seen you in any of these communities, so you wouldn't know what's going on out there! So out of the ashes of the coalition's mess we are building a program that will provide opportunities for and empower First Nations people. (Time expired)