Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. There will be a proper investigation into Stronger Futures, and I will ensure that that is the case—having held a press conference earlier this week, with a number of Aboriginal elders from around the country, putting on the record their opposition. I raise that in the context that it was the Howard government, with several of the members still in this parliament here at the time, who guillotined that debate on the Northern Territory intervention.

We had Senator Abetz talking about the fact that the Greens, in a balance-of-power parliament, where there is the opportunity for all parties, all Independents—