Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (NT, Country Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Once again, how will these representatives represent? As is outlined in the pamphlet, how will they reflect the wishes of their community? Will they be given a travel budget to carry out their duties, in terms of reflecting the wishes of their communities, and to move around what we know can be vast chunks of our country? I know this. Senator McCarthy understands this. We both have to travel around the Northern Territory and to these very remote places. The delegation from Ngukurr that came here took two days to get here. Unfortunately, it didn't get the opportunity to speak to the government, despite two days of travel. So I think it's a legitimate question to ask how this will occur.