QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator COX (Western Australia) (14:21): This Labor government has signed on 29 February 2024 a statement of intent for Murujuga, and just last week released your own department's First Nations strategy. I want to acknowledge the traditional owners who are here today from Murujuga, from Ngurrangga, and to ask why the minister has not replied to them in the three years that that application for section 10 has been sitting on her desk.

It was lodged by First Nations women begging the government to protect their cultural places. Why won't the minister answer?