Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I cannot really let that one go by. The Greens do support this particular amendment because it is a small step by this government towards taking into account what the traditional owners have said. However, as I have said in this place and have read out from the Hansard transcript, the traditional owners and the land councils do not believe they have been adequately consulted on significant areas of this legislation. So, yes, you can score a cheap point by saying that you have listened, but you have not listened to the bulk of what they said about these contentious amendments. You have not listened and you have not taken it on board, because if you were taking it on board you would split this bill to deal separately with the bits to do with mining that everybody agrees to.