The Hon. SANDRA KANCK: I seek leave to make a brief explanation before asking the Minister for Transport and Urban Planning, representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, a question about an Aboriginal burial site in the Coorong National Park.
 Leave granted.
 The Hon. SANDRA KANCK: My office has been informed that tourist operators are taking tourists from Goolwa by boat to view Aboriginal remains in the vicinity of Marks Point in the Coorong. I have been informed that these sightseeing excursions are taking place despite objections from the Ngarrindjeri people. By contrast, visitors to the West Terrace Cemetery in search of Percy Grainger's grave site breach no cultural taboos. Colonel Light's burial place in Light Square is a public monument. Tours of historic cemeteries are seen as legitimate revenue-raising activities, but these practices are anathema to Aborigines. It is deeply offensive to them for an Aboriginal burial site to be used as a lure for tourists. For them, these remains are sacred and to profit from them is profane.
 I believe that this burial site has been entered in the Register of Aboriginal Sites and Objects under the Aboriginal Heritage Act, section 23 of which makes it an offence to damage, disturb or interfere with any Aboriginal site. At issue is whether tourists interfere with Aboriginal remains by looking at them. If so, section 24 of the Act empowers the Minister to restrict access to the site. Given that the underlying purpose of the Aboriginal Heritage Act is to protect Aboriginal culture and that organised tours to Aboriginal burial sites undermine the values of Aboriginal culture, the Minister may be obliged to use that power. My questions to the Minister are:
 1. Has the Department of State Aboriginal Affairs received any complaints concerning tourist operators' activities at the Marks Point burial site?
 2. Will the Minister restrict access to the site in accord-ance with the Aboriginal Heritage Act?
  The Hon. DIANA LAIDLAW: I will refer the honourable member's question to the Minister and bring back a reply.