Senate debates

Monday, 12 August 2024

Questions without Notice

Uluru Statement from the Heart

2:24 pm

Photo of Dorinda CoxDorinda Cox (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, pre election, in 2022, your Labor conference adopted makarrata as a policy. It was pre-costed at $27.7 million, and you even put $5.8 million in the 2022 budget to commence work on establishing an independent makarrata commission to oversee processes for agreement-making and truth-telling. Why is this Labor government now, particularly the Prime Minister, breaking this election promise to the Australian people and gaslighting First Nations people about this election promise?

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