Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Macdonald is absolutely right: the risks that are involved here if we do not act in accordance with the views of Indigenous Australians. There has been some suggestion that there is only one agreement at risk. But a letter from the National Native Title Council to the government makes the point that a number of ILUAs, Indigenous land use agreements, that are currently subject to the registration test due to deceased or non-signing RNTCs are at risk of not being able to be registered unless we act—a number of those agreements.

One of those agreements that is at risk is the agreement relating to the Adani Carmichael coalmine, which is supported by the local Indigenous people. It will provide thousands of jobs for Australians, including jobs for Indigenous people. But, because we cannot seem to do our job in this place, those jobs are now at risk and they are at risk because of the actions of the federal Australian Labor Party. I hope there are no claims from them tonight, from Mr Shorten and others, that they support jobs in this country, because their actions today in this place clearly show they do not support jobs. They do not support the creation of jobs in this country and they cannot make claims to the contrary tonight.