05:57

One last update (because the Guardian brains trust never stops):

The Senate has just passed a motion, moved by Labor’s Malarndirri McCarthy, demanding the Indigenous affairs minister, Nigel Scullion, make public the advice he received from his department, as well as other documents relating to the grants he made to the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association (NTCA), the Amateur Fisherman’s Association of the Northern Territory (AFANT) and the Northern Territory Seafood Council (NTSC) as well as copies of their grant applications, by Thursday morning.

Scullion copped a fair bit of heat, as we reported last week, for allocating grants worth almost $500,000 to these organisations, to help them argue their “detriment” cases in land rights claims, most of which have been held up for years by unresolved detriment issues. He told Senate estimates the money was for legal fees for the groups to argue how they might be negatively impacted by land rights claims but the groups have all since said that’s not quite the case.

Scullion used the IAS – the Indigenous advancement strategy – to fund the groups. One of them, the NT Seafood Council, he used to chair. The IAS is meant to address Indigenous disadvantage.