Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes:

(i) the insensitive remarks of the Prime Minister (Mr Abbott) in which he called remote Aboriginal communities a 'lifestyle choice',

(ii) the anguish that the proposed closure of remote communities is causing Aboriginal people in Western Australia, and

(iii) the importance of remote communities for cultural, social and emotional wellbeing, and the role these communities play in land management; and

(b) calls on:

(i) the Prime Minister to apologise for his remarks,

(ii) the Federal Government to reinstate the Municipal and Essential Services funding to Western Australia, and

(iii) the Barnett Government to abandon its plan to close Aboriginal communities and to instead work with those communities to deliver essential services and support.

Question agreed to.