Mr SNOWDON (12:48 PM) —I want to say one thing. You need to understand what is in the Canadian model, and understand about self-governance, and understand the direction in which Indigenous people in this country who talk to me want to go. You need to appreciate that there is a lot—

The DEPUTY SPEAKER (Mr Wilkie)—The member for Lingiari will refer his remarks through the chair.

Mr SNOWDON —There is a lot more to this discussion than the member understands. I suggest to him that he read a little more about it. The fact is that there is a desire by Indigenous people in this country to have a voice. They want a national voice. It is our responsibility to listen to that. We on the Labor side will, and we will come back here at some future point with a model of our own which has developed as a result of input from Indigenous Australians and not impose our own views as you have done.