Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

He contracted COVID, and so that was delayed. Obviously, the next opportunity he was able to visit was 24 January. Minister Burney has visited Alice Springs on a number of occasions and, of course, we are quite blessed in the Labor Party to have Senator McCarthy, the member for Lingiari and many others who engage very closely on these issues.

It is the case that yesterday, the Prime Minister, as you know, announced additional support for the Northern Territory. And it is the case that the Stronger Futures program ended under you with no plan. So it is interesting that in this place you wish to come in here and play partisan politics on an issue where you dropped the ball at the end of the Stronger Futures program—