Bob Katter (Kennedy, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

Is the Minister for Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs aware that in 1989 the Queensland Auditor-General effectively had no problems with any of the 28 Aboriginal community councils? At the time all were receiving back-up from a full government department, an Aboriginal coordination council and an ‘on location’ information and advisory officer carrying out continuous audit on service delivery and expenditures. Is the minister aware that incoming Labor governments abolished all three of these essential support services? Is the minister further aware that 1980s Queensland legislation provided the mechanism by which Aboriginal community residents could own their own homes, shops, farms and businesses? Is the minister aware that this was also abolished, reducing every one of the three million hectares of DOGIT lands to collective ownership, now owned by trustees appointed by, and at the convenience of, the Queensland minister?

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