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

The day that they sent me that letter was 7 May. I wrote back the next day, 8 May, saying how disappointed I was in their attitude, their capacity to identify the need and their capability or otherwise to find new money, considering that all but New South Wales had brought their budgets down in that time and one would have thought that they would have looked at their position in great detail. None of them undertook to put that into their budgets. I think that is a crying shame. However, I asked them in that letter dated 8 May to come back to me as soon as practicable with a detailed and complete breakdown of what they intend to fund, how they intend to fund it and what funding they require from the Commonwealth government. So I await their advice.

Proposed expenditure agreed to.

Department of Human Services

Proposed expenditure, $1,997,077,000.

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