Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Brandis, perhaps you could share with the chamber the process that you went through to take this to the reps bodies, because I and a number of other senators have received a letter from the NLC, the Northern Land Council, expressing their concerns. Ultimately, I do understand that you agreed to amend the original amendment that you proposed here, but I think it is clear, certainly from the correspondence that I received, that there was concern from other representative bodies about this approach. I will accept that they ultimately agreed—I understand, with some reluctance—to the amendments that you subsequently made to the original amendment.