Andrew Bartlett (Queensland, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Indigenous Affairs. Is the minister aware that, today, in Parliament House, Bishop Saibo Mabo, the Deputy Chair of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Executive Commission of the National Council of Churches, launched the latest component of the ‘Make Indigenous poverty history’ campaign? Does the minister support the call of the National Council of Churches for the federal government to adopt the Millenium Development Goals to apply specifically to Australia, so that, as has been done for poverty-stricken people in other continents, the goal can be set to lift Indigenous Australians out of poverty by 2015?