Aboriginal Land Rights Amendment Bill Speech

I join with others in regretting the fact that the time available for all of us to speak on the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Amendment Bill 2006 has been cut so short. I will not waste any of my limited time railing against that—I will allow people to make judgments for themselves. One of the things that strike me about this bill is that it illustrates an emerging feature of the Howard government: the Howard government hates agreement about issues that it might be able to exploit as wedge issues.