Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, it might help you in your ruling to understand, as I do, that the Minister for Indigenous Affairs makes the appointments of the people, including Mr Mayo, to the referendum working group. The work of the working group is solely within the responsibility of the minister. The minister meets regularly with the working group and has provided support to the working group. In fact, it is funded, as I understand it, by the minister's department—the secretariat, the costs of Mr Mayo and others to travel around the country. On that basis, I put it to you that it is squarely within the minister's responsibility.

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