Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

If you take away the current circumstances and the circumstances since the intervention with the intention of introducing legislation, the narrowcasting still occurs today. But at the end of a cent, if it was our way, it would be zero, but your way it would be 100 per cent. That is the differential between the government’s position and our position. I acknowledge that the differential effectively is about consultation. I acknowledge that the significant difference is in consultation. Has the department received any information or done any work on how the communities actually feel about this? Apart from the communities generally saying, ‘We did not like the consultation process of the intervention,’ do you have any indications about how many communities will be saying that they would like to be declared? I know that is a difficult question, but perhaps you could just give me some indication about whether or not the department has had any investigations in that regard.