Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, the bill before you today, on the other hand, does not achieve what it set out to do, which was to strengthen our land rights and lead to economic empowerment. If you want to honestly benefit First Nations people in the Northern Territory then include them in the changes that concern them. Listen properly and work from that. I don't mean just the land councils and the various Native Title corporations—no, I mean the communities and the people on the ground. Acting Deputy President, I foreshadow my second reading amendment.