Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

If you look at the different definitions of Aboriginality across the Commonwealth statute books, you have section 23 under the Social Security Act, you have the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act and you have the Australian Education Regulation 2013—there is a definition at section 16. You have section 253 under the Native Title Act 1993. You also have the CATSI Act, and they themselves have a definition. Each definition is actually slightly different, hence my question. You've given a definition that you are going to use here, which is the tripartite one, but then there are other definitions set out. So my question is: how are you going to ensure consistency so you don't get 'included here', 'excluded here', 'included here', 'excluded here'?