The Member for Herbert, Peter Lindsay, who is based in the city of Townsville, has renewed his controversial call for an improvement of conditions on the island.
Mr Lindsay said that leaders on the island off north Queensland had not adequately dealt with a cycle of poor leadership, poor health, unemployment, violence and poverty.
"I'm fair dinkum - if the indigenous leaders are not prepared to change the hopeless conditions that the community currently live in, then perhaps it's time to move them all to the mainland and integrate into mainstream Australia," Mr Lindsay told ABC radio.
He said if the Queensland state government would not consider moving islanders to the mainland, they should be given freehold ownership of their land to generate business opportunities and some wealth.
"For indigenous Australians being able to deal in their own land, that brings enterprise and that brings jobs," Mr Lindsay said.
However, Townsville Labor MP Mike Reynolds branded Mr Lindsay's claims completely outrageous.
"I think Peter Lindsay, you know, his proposal, it's insulting," Mr Reynolds said.
"At the end of the day I wouldn't see him getting much support from cabinet ministers in Canberra."