Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens will be supporting this hours motion and the ordering of business for the remainder of this week. We also support the amendment, as circulated by the government, to help facilitate a very important piece of legislation, the territory rights legislation, to finally—hopefully—pass this place. This legislation has been tried many times for far too long. Territorians have been denied their rights because of—and talk about secret deals and dodgy deals—deals that were done in this place decades ago. Territorians have been suffering the results of this ever since, so it's time we corrected this and it's time that we made sure that all Australians are seen as equal under the law.

This motion deals with a number of bills. There is a huge number of them; we understand that. But we are willing to facilitate the passage of them on the basis that this place needs to be functional and that it needs to work properly for the people. We will support the motion. (Time expired)