Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source

Perhaps you do wish to describe it in this way, but sovereign risk is not the same as being asked to comply with existing laws for the Australian government. These are not the same things. It is of course the case that the government has embarked on a broader process of reform for our cultural heritage arrangements. Indeed, we had understood that this had been embarked upon as part of a bipartisan process, because everyone in this chamber, I think, recalls what happened at the Juukan Gorge. I think everybody remembers the national level of concern that was articulated at that time, and everybody remembers that there was bipartisan agreement that heritage laws needed to be reformed. If you have changed that position, you might inform the chamber.