Julie Owens (Parramatta, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I acknowledge the members for Kennedy and Leichhardt for their contributions. There can be no doubt in this House or the broader community of their absolute commitment to improving the lives and independence of our Indigenous community. I note that neither of them spoke very much at all on the actual bill that is before us today, and I would like to go back to that.

They highlighted the many complexities in Cape York. I visited with the economics committee last year and found a fabulous, difficult—

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