Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the document.

I will take the opportunity to say what I can in the short time available, because the annual report into Indigenous education and training is always a very significant report. This is the 2004 report and, if I get a chance to say anything in the minute that I have, I do want people to know that this report is in fact one year late. This report should have been tabled last September or October, so the government are running behind by 12 months in their agenda to report to this nation on the progress of Indigenous education. They might say to me in estimates that it is because they are waiting for states and territories to get figures to them—that may well be the case. If that is the case then something drastically needs to be done to ensure states and territories report more efficiently and promptly so that that is not an excuse this federal government can give us. I seek leave to continue my remarks later.

Leave granted; debate adjourned.