Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

four months, to get here. If it was something that people were wildly opposed to, if Indigenous people were widely opposed to it, one could understand why it might take four months to get to this particular state of being, but I understand that the Labor Party and certainly the Labor Party in Queensland—Premier Palaszczuk and her ministers—are all totally in support of this amendment and always have been. Clearly, if the Labor Party, the coalition and One Nation are so much in favour of this, it amazes me that it has taken us four months to get to this stage where we are almost ready to pass a piece of legislation that has all but the unanimous support of this chamber. People can make their own opinions on the motives of those who have delayed it until this time. I simply come back to my question: Attorney, it is very important for Queensland to know how many of these Indigenous Land Use Agreements will be regularised or confirmed—or whatever the terminology is—when, as appears likely, this amendment is passed.