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

As I said in relation to an answer to Senator Cash, we will not be adopting or duplicating existing state and territory regimes. What we will be doing is modernising Indigenous heritage protection laws in Australia. And I'm grateful for Senator Duniam who on 28 November last year said that the Juukan Gorge events:

… were so disastrous that they made it very clear that comprehensive work needed to begin, as a matter of urgency, on modernising Indigenous heritage protection laws in Australia.