• Country Liberal Party Senator for NT
• Deputy Leader of The Nationals (since 3 Mar 2011)
  Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs (since 3 Mar 2011)
  Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs (since 8 Dec 2009)
  Deputy Leader of the Nationals (since 22 Sep 2008)
• Became a Senator on 10 November 2001 — General election
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Matters of Public Interest: South, Mr William 'Bill' (15 May 2013)

“I rise to speak today of the passing of Bill South, an unsung hero who changed the lives of Aboriginal people in some of Australia's most remote Indigenous communities. Bill South passed away suddenly, a day before his 63rd birthday, on 16 March this year in the remote community of Robertson River, a place he came to call his home. Robertson River is in the Gulf of Carpentaria, around 150...”

Questions without Notice: Accommodation for Indigenous Students (27 Feb 2013)

“Mr President, I have a further supplementary question. Why is the government wasting tens of millions of dollars on your unworkable plan whilst Kormilda College in Darwin is having to turn away Indigenous boarders and close residential facilities because of a funding cut, a cut which will grow under the Gonski funding model?”

Questions without Notice: Accommodation for Indigenous Students (27 Feb 2013)

“Mr President, on a point of order on relevance—and I know we only have 12 seconds. My question was very simple. I wondered whether there was an explanation why 20 of the 21 students currently living within metres of the boarding facility and attending exactly the same school they would have attended in any event, somehow attempts to meet the motivation of the program. Opposition...”

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• Has spoken in 29 debates in the last year — below average amongst Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 410 times in debates — well above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)