Senator MARGETTS(7.50 p.m.) —I am not suggesting that they necessarily are consequential. They go in a pack in reality—Greens and Democrats amendments Nos 103, 170, 188 and 258, which are the same as the opposition's amendments, actually reverse the exclusion of infrastructure projects by third parties from the right to negotiate. Considering what that can mean in relation to the range of areas that excludes the right to negotiate, in reality, as a package there are some parts of it that are consequential, but as a package that is what they do.

They are substantive in total, but it is actually a very important issue. It excludes quite a lot of people from the right to negotiate in quite a lot of instances. Also, if left there, it would actually provide even further incentives for further action of governments to deliberately exclude indigenous Australians from the right to negotiate.