Senate debates

Wednesday, 14 June 2017

Bills

Native Title Amendment (Indigenous Land Use Agreements) Bill 2017; In Committee

10:05 am

Photo of George BrandisGeorge Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

We are talking about three different things now. There are the ILUAs that are registered—that is the 126. There are the eight ILUAs that are pending, and those are on the list that I am providing to you and just read onto the record. Then there were some other ILUAs, including those to which you have referred, which had been pending registration but, as a consequence of the McGlade decision, were no longer capable of registration, as it were—and the purpose of this bill, as you know, is to reverse legislatively the effect of the McGlade decision.

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