Senate debates

Thursday, 22 August 2024

Motions

Missing and Murdered First Nations Women and Children

10:12 am

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

There's no embarrassment, Senator Cox. There is no embarrassment whatsoever. We want to do this properly, Senator Cox, and we want to make sure that we have the appropriate way of doing it through the funding that should be provided to our legal services, to our women's centres, to our family organisations. This report requires that. If it took three years to be able to listen to the stories of people, I'm sure more than a week is needed to have a look at this report and deal with it respectfully and thoroughly. Bringing your recommendations in here in the last five minutes—

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