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

That will be your second question. I will take it in a moment. With regard to your first question about the standards—and that is what we are looking for—you are asking the question: what is our plan? At the end of five years these communities should enjoy the same level of law and order, the same level of housing and the same level of amenity that the rest of Australia enjoys. Will the land be given back at the end of that period—it will not be extended? Absolutely. It is a sunset clause. It will not have to go through the parliament. When five years expires from the day this legislation is enacted, those provisions will be lifted and the land will return to exactly the way it is today, except for the fact—and I wish this to be so and I am sure that you share my hope—that the circumstances in which those people find themselves will be drastically changed for the better.