Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I understand that the minister is saying that land outside of a community—the term used by the minister—this circumscribed township area, is not common land in the definition for the purposes of this legislation. I want to make it clear that we are not talking about Indigenous lands in the main; we are talking about those lands within prescribed areas. It says that it does not include a building, and the minister said that private households will be excluded and fences will be put up. I presume it will be like Canberra, but it is all going to be laid down in the regulations. There is nothing here to say that everybody’s houses are not open to anyone who wants to go through them, past them, by them. I am thinking here particularly about the influx of people from outside, including busybodies, who are now permitted to enter Aboriginal land under this legislation. I want to make it clear that this problem has been thought out and dealt with before we pass by this part of the legislation tonight.