Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

There are two things. First of all, as I indicated to the parliament yesterday, the ACT has put an offer on the table and we are now considering that. I wrote to all states and territories earlier this month and confirmed for them that the Commonwealth will continue to fund the Commonwealth/State-Territory Disability Agreement at its current rate, including indexation, up to—I say ‘up to’ and not ‘until’—31 December. Hopefully there will be a multilateral agreement before then so that the new agreement can come into place. In the event that negotiations stop altogether, then obviously that is there. That is the interim measure that has been put into place: continuation of the same level of funding, including indexation, through to the end of this calendar year.

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