David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs) Share this | Hansard source

I can inform the senator that I think most of the issues that were dealt with by the Joint Committee on Native Title and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Land Fund will end up in the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs. That is an area where, both at estimates and in the general scheme of terms of reference, these matters can be oversighted. I think the senator well knows that that is an appropriate task for that committee, which is skilled in oversighting native title matters, given of course that the Attorney-General is the responsible minister.