Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for COAG) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note the minister’s views about form of bureaucratic arrangement but, given that the lack of effective coordination previously in Indigenous affairs was one of the most significant problems afflicting the area, can the minister explain how, in the reduction of ministerial councils to some 23, Indigenous affairs did not make the cut and was relegated to the status of a working group? His answer still does not address that concern.