Senate debates

Tuesday, 14 August 2007

SOCIAL SECURITY AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (WELFARE PAYMENT REFORM) BILL 2007; NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE BILL 2007; FAMILIES, COMMUNITY SERVICES AND INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (NORTHERN TERRITORY NATIONAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2007; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 1) 2007-2008; Appropriation (Northern Territory National Emergency Response) Bill (No. 2) 2007-2008

In Committee

8:57 pm

Photo of Trish CrossinTrish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Can I now ask why Elliott Community Council has not been considered as one of the 70 communities, given that, as I understand it, the criteria were those communities of 100 or more residents? Elliott has 650 residents. It is deemed, as I understand it, to be a town camp. If that is the case, could the minister please explain a ‘town camp’? To which town is it associated, seeing that it is 700 kilometres south of Darwin and 780 kilometres north of Alice Springs?

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