Milne, Sen Christine

Senator MILNE (Tasmania—Leader of the Australian Greens) (22:49): Surely there ought to be some sort of assessment of whether this exemption regime actually works. From what I can understand from the data, the March 2011 data showed that, of the 2,130 people granted exemptions from income management, 75 per cent were non-Indigenous. What that would mean is that only four per cent of the entire population on quarantined payments in the Northern Territory accounted for three-quarters of all exemptions granted. So how is it that Centrelink has determined that the non-Indigenous four per cent have three-quarters of all the exemptions granted?