Aboriginal Heritage Act

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (14:30): Supplementary: why won't the minister provide a copy of that correspondence to the President of the Law Society, and will the minister actually provide a copy of that correspondence to the Law Society for this chamber?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Employment, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation, Minister for Manufacturing and Innovation, Minister for Automotive Transformation, Minister for Science and Information Economy) (14:30): I won't. In relation to a letter that was written from the President of the Law Society to me as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, I have now, in the last few days, written back to him. It is not my habit, when people send letters to me asking me to clarify issues for them, to supply those to third parties.

I have no problem if the President of the Law Society wishes to supply individual members with what I wrote back to him, but I think there is an expectation when people write to me and I write back to them, that I am writing back to them. But the substance of the question was, as I have outlined in the answer to the honourable member, that any section 6(2) application that was alive at the time, or issues arising from that, now fall away.