Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The heading of the article is ‘Federal Minister criticism of NT Police’. That is what the headline of the article says. I do not know why the Howard government feels the need to abuse and denigrate the Northern Territory Police in the way that Mr Brough has in that article, but these people do not operate on a ‘fly-in, fly-out’ basis. They try very hard under very difficult circumstances. They deal with the problems of violence in Indigenous communities every day. Abusing the Northern Territory Police will do not one thing, not one jot, to solve the problems. The point I make is that neither will this bill.