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

I'm more than happy for people to watch. I think it's important that people should see what democracy is all about and how debates take place in this Senate—those that are sensible and those that are nonsensical. But I will say this: the policies of the past have impacted First Nations people. We are seeing that addressed in the redress, as I was saying to the Senate today, in terms of the stolen generations. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of families across Australia still traumatised by the policies of the day, by governments from way back in the 1800s through to the 1970s. I know that the parliament of Australia today is acutely aware of that. Was it the right thing to do?