Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Heffernan interjects. The difference is: he is in government, and I am talking about a failure of government precedent over the last 10 years. I recognise that Senator Heffernan has been outspoken on this issue, but it takes a collective role in government, and it takes tremendous goodwill and determination on behalf of the leadership in government, which has been absent from Australian affairs and which needs to be fixed if we are to do justice to first Australians as we should.