Innamincka Regional Reserve
25/11/2010
The Hon. K.L. VINCENT (16:02): I apologise for my absence earlier, so I will be brief. I wish to thank the Minister for Environment and Conservation for providing me with a briefing on this matter. I understand that the excision of the Innamincka township is in fact in line with the Indigenous Land Usage Agreement that was signed by the traditional owners of the YY people a number of years ago. I do hope that I am not offending anyone but I am not actually even going to attempt to pronounce the actual name. I know that Hansard has enough difficulty understanding me as it is, so forgive me.
I was assured during that briefing that the traditional owners were comfortable with the excision of the township from the Innamincka Regional Reserve in view of the ILUA. However, I felt that it was my duty to make contact with the representatives of the traditional owners to ensure that they were fully informed of what was happening. I understand that the ILUA provided for the excision. I just wanted to be sure that there were no other issues that had cropped up since then, so to speak. My office has been in contact with the representatives of the traditional owners on a number of occasions and, as result of these discussions, I advise that I will be supporting this motion.
