Amanda Stoker (Queensland, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The relevant point, I think, Senator Thorpe—I'm not going to speak to you chapter and verse, because you know this very well; as you have said frequently, you're an Indigenous native title holder yourself—what's important about this bill is that it allows native title holders to, in a sense, choose their own adventure, because they can do things in a way that is relevant to their group's customs and practices. Through the mechanism for imposing conditions on the exercise of authority there is the ability to use a decision-making process that works for them so that it can truly reflect the diversity of the ways in which decision-making can occur across different communities.