Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Community Services) Share this | Hansard source

As the senator should know, the circumstances of Elliott are quite different. It is clearly not on Aboriginal land, which makes it quite different from a number of the other communities. But, as I said in an earlier submission, the community of Elliott have contacted us and said, ‘We would like to be added to the list.’ We are considering that, and we will be working very closely with the community. We will be listening to and consulting with the community and we will be ensuring that we make a decision on that. We have only just had the submission from them to join the communities. But the principal answer to your question on the difference between Elliott and other communities is that it is in fact not on scheduled Indigenous land as the remainder of the other communities that were prescribed would have been.