APY Lands

The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS (14:55): My questions to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation are:

1 What is the current fee paid by the Crown to the APY under the terms of the Mintabie town lease agreement?

2. Are the Crown's payments current?

3. Is the APY entitled to any part of the moneys collected by the Crown from prospecting or tenements granted on the Mintabie Precious Stones Field?

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) (14:56): I thank the honourable member for his questions. From memory, the last Mintabie agreement that was signed between APY and the government—and I think the Mintabie Miners Progress Association might be a party to that agreement—was about 2012. I don't have the details of how the lease agreement works or where any licence or prospecting fees are paid to, but I am very happy to go away and find out. I know that, for that division of the APY act that includes Mintabie, the minister responsible is the minister for mining, but I am happy to find out the exact answers about what relationship there is, where fees are paid to and how they are distributed.