Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (NT, Country Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Australians) Share this | Hansard source

My question is for the Minister for Indigenous Australians, Minister McCarthy. There was an election commitment from this government to establish a Makarrata commission to oversee truth-telling and treaty-making. At estimates two weeks ago your agency reported the $5.8 million budgeted for Makarrata had been moved from the National Indigenous Australians Agency to the contingency reserve, with officials confirming that we don't have specific resourcing for work on the Makarrata commission. Will the government keep its promise to establish a Makarrata commission before the end of this term of parliament, or has it now accepted that this was a bad idea—just as bad as the Voice?