Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to thank you all for the contribution you make to the way those polls are going. Every time you dismiss Senator Nampijinpa Price or Senator Liddle and you diminish the roles of the Indigenous voices that you don't like, it actually just helps boost those in the 'no' camp. It also brings people across to the 'no' camp because they know that this will just be an absolute stitch-up by the Labor Party. Senator Thorpe was right. The people that agree with it will make sure that the rorts and the handouts and the scams continue. They don't want transparency, they don't want good governance. Imagine if we had good governance in the unions. Imagine how that'd go. Jeez, Louise! That'd be fun. Everybody would be busy for years on that.

Senator Liddle and Senator Nampijinpa Price, I commend you for bringing this motion. I would urge all members who claim that it's important that we have Indigenous voices, that we hear the Indigenous voices and that we hear from Indigenous voices in the community who understand what's happening at the coalface who need to tell us what they want, that you should support this motion.