Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

I just hope, Senator O'Sullivan, that you're not seeking to scaremonger here. I said this earlier tonight and I'll say it again: we consulted with communities. I went through in some exhaustive detail the amount of effort that Senator McCarthy and her colleagues in the Northern Territory in the Labor Party went to to consult with people about this issue. We went to the last election with this policy. The Australian people, including the people in the Northern Territory, voted for this government, and what we're doing here is implementing the promise that we took to the Australian people. I understand that you don't like that result, but the reality is that that's what the Australian people voted for, and we intend to do what we said we would do, and that is to pass this piece of legislation, which, hopefully, we'll do sometime tonight or tomorrow morning.