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

My question is to Senator Scullion, the Minister for Community Services. I refer the minister to reports about the Country Liberal Party fishing trip that is alleged to have taken alcohol to restricted parts of the Tiwi Islands on 22 July this year. Can the minister indicate whether he took, or drank, any alcohol onshore on the Tiwi Islands on that day or if he is aware of anyone in the party who did? Can the minister explain the presence of empty bottles and alcohol containers that were found on the Tiwi Islands on 22 July? Has the minister ever bought or consumed alcohol in any Aboriginal community or been part of a group that has? Haven’t the activities on the minister’s fishing trip seriously compromised the government’s efforts to stop the ‘rivers of grog’ that have a devastating impact on Indigenous communities?