Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I will just correct the senator. There were 23 community alcohol management plans. Under your legislation, Senator—through you, Mr President—they were reduced to eight, because the others were noncompliant. I have not only dealt with one; I have dealt with all eight. I have rejected seven and I have accepted one. Of the seven applications that I rejected, most were rejected because they actually introduced more alcohol into communities, and I am someone who has been on the record—and I am unlikely to change my stance—saying that I have never seen more alcohol in the community help things.