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

I know you think that the mining industry is quite happy with it, but I can quote to you from the Minerals Council of Australia submission, where they say:

The additional measures have the potential to divert already limited resources towards bureaucratic processes, unnecessarily onerous compliance obligations or the winding-up and establishment of new services ...

They go on to say:

... such organisational changes can add significant delays and additional costs to industry in:

> suspending existing negotiations;

> requiring the renegotiation of certain matters previously agreed upon;

> requiring the building of new relationships with new NTRB staff; and

> requiring new NTRB staff to acquaint themselves with the particular matter and the relevant native title holder/claimant group.

Unless they have changed their minds since they put in the submission to the Senate inquiry, those are the comments of the Minerals Council of Australia.