Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The opposition opposes schedule 1 in the following terms:

(10)  Schedule 1, item 43, page 16 (lines 11 to 20), TO BE OPPOSED.

I move this amendment on behalf of the opposition to remove this item, which actually limits the ability of the secretary of the department to make funding available to Indigenous people in areas where there is no representative body, only in circumstances where in the opinion of the secretary the function would not be performed in an efficient and timely manner without such funding. This is not a requirement for funding to Indigenous people in other areas. We do not believe it is necessary, so we will be seeking to have it removed.