Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister. let's hope that the court is more respectful of the assertions and facts put by the traditional owners than you have been today in dismissing them either as irrelevant or as simply assertions that you have not bothered to inform yourself about, which I am quite shocked and disappointed by. On that matter, you are correct that it is before the Federal Court. I understand the hearing date is March of next year and that there are several grounds to that case, which Senator Dodson referred to earlier in his initial contribution as well. The Prime Minister promised Mr Adani that he would fix the native tile issue. This bill is seeking to fix a small aspect, but is it not the case that there are multiple prongs in that litigation before the Federal Court by the W&J mob and that even if this bill does succeed, thanks to Labor rolling over and trashing Indigenous rights with this government's bill, that in fact the issue will not be fixed and that there will still be many other grounds before the court such that a registered ILUA could not be completed any time before March? Is the Prime Minister now going to tell Mr Adani that in fact he has not been able to 'fix' native title issues at all?