Minister, as you know, it is almost 20 years since any lands were formally returned through legislative process to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people.
A recently released Right to Information (RTI) request reveals the secrecy over Expressions of Interest (EOI) proposals continues unabated.
In my hand is a right to information document that is 738 pages long with 658 pages, unsurprisingly, fully redacted.
First, I acknowledge the Aboriginal people of Tasmania, I acknowledge 219 years of dispossession from landscape and violence towards First Nations people.
The Greens are a party committed to truth telling, to treaty, to the return of stolen lands and to changing the date of our nation's day.
The Liberals are running roughshod over the wishes of UNESCO and any spirit of consensus building with the Tasmanian Aboriginal community.
On this day across the nation, Aboriginal people mourn the loss of their country.
We are standing on country that was taken at the point of a gun, an island that was never ceded by its true owners.
The generational grief, deep wounds and enduring dispossession of the Tasmanian Aboriginal people have been acknowledged by the Tasmanian Parliament today.
Aunty Phyllis Pitchford, what an extraordinary Tasmanian and what a wonderful legacy of love she has left behind.