Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

TON (—) (): Thank you. I'm just wondering whether you might be able to provide us with some more detail, because, as you would probably be aware, when the income management act was first passed, the then government had to suspend the Racial Discrimination Act. Considering that you've put on the record that 84 per cent of income management recipients in the Northern Territory are Indigenous and that the sites around Australia where there will be removal of compulsory income management have a higher percentage of non-Indigenous populations, I was just wondering whether you'd sought specific advice in relation to noncompliance with the Racial Discrimination Act and whether you believe that there was any need to consider the resuspension of the Racial Discrimination Act in relation to the extension of the instruments that relate to compulsory income management in the Northern Territory.