Senate debates
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
Questions without Notice: Take Note of Answers
Indigenous Communities
3:08 pm
Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source
is that, in the Northern Territory seat of Lingiari, we obtained a 52 per cent endorsement for the Labor Party and its policies at the last election. Your vote plummeted to 35 per cent. So I say to you, Senator Scullion, ‘Get over it, and move on.’ There was a resounding endorsement for the Labor Party and its policies at the last election. At the Yirrkala booth, 292 voters to four; at Galiwinku—where your minister had flown in and out of that community day after day—they were lined up 50 deep, hour after hour. You were there and witnessed—
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