Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Manager of Government Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

In what we have before us and in the correspondence which has gone from Assistant Minister Tudge to Ms Macklin and is also available for other colleagues, we are talking specifically about the support arrangements for these trials. I do not think anyone should think support arrangements for these trials would be to the detriment of any other community in the nation. If there are propositions that are put to government for support in other communities then they will be considered through the usual government processes. So I do not think anyone should see what is proposed here as being at the expense of other communities. There will be an evaluation of these trial sites. The community will be heavily involved in that evaluation process, and if there are other inputs that communities or colleagues in this place think should be looked at in that evaluation process then I am certain that Assistant Minister Tudge would be only too happy to sit down and talk to colleagues to explore these matters.