APY Lands

The Hon. T.J. STEPHENS (14:56): Supplementary question: minister, have you had complaints raised about any issues at Mintabie from the APY Executive or the APY general manager recently?

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) (14:57): I thank the honourable member for his question. I have had a number of discussions, particularly a couple of weeks ago when cabinet was up in the APY lands, about Mintabie. A Federal Court decision was handed down at the end of last year, and after the judgement a penalty was awarded against the owners of Nobby's store.

Certainly, we have had a number of discussions, and I know that the federal government is also interested in looking at anything further or any further ways that we can regulate particularly how businesses are run in Mintabie. People have discussed this with me, and both the state and the federal government are looking at what more we can do in relation to that.