Malarndirri McCarthy (NT, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Smith, the behaviour stopped simply because the parliament had said that it would move ahead in 2016 in terms of closing these loopholes. If we had done nothing and had sent that message more broadly across the country then of course those activities would have started again. That's why we're moving these amendments so that we can close this loophole.