Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Labor supports paragraphs (a) and (b) which acknowledge our history and the way it interacts with the ongoing social and economic determinants of First Nations people. Labor will not be supporting paragraph (c) that proposes reallocation of the $48.7 million. It does not address the structural changes required to properly address First Nations' disadvantage. Labor instead calls on the government to recommit to closing the gap and properly funding effective strategies for meeting the close the gap targets. So we ask the motion be split.