Nigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We know that the best way to guarantee success is to work in close partnership with our First Australians to promote economic development in their own communities. Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to be on Gumatj country in the Northern Territory and saw the outstanding success of the Gumatj corporation in growing wealth and generating jobs for their people. It was a great occasion to be at Garma with the Prime Minister and to witness the Gumatj corporation sign off on their own mining agreement. This is on top of a coffee shop, a nursery, a sawmill, a furniture factory, a cattle enterprise, a butcher shop and a fishing enterprise. They're now going into mining on their own country. The government has made it possible, with an investment of $800,000, to establish a mine training centre. And, again, on the Gumatj corporation's advice, they built the entire mine training centre, which is really value adding.