Senate debates

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Questions without Notice

Budget

2:34 pm

Photo of Nigel ScullionNigel Scullion (NT, Country Liberal Party, Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

There is $3.8 million for the Child Abuse Task Force; $13.4 million for Indigenous education engagement through the Sporting Chance Program. Of course, that would be very popular with those on the other side. They were the 3,000 young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander men and women, who were told: 'You're in the Clontarf Foundation, but we forgot to put anything in forward estimates.' Well done! It is all right; we have repaired the damage. We have provided $13.4 million, which was accidentally left off your forward estimates. So these people now actually have a future, as a part of what I think is one of the greatest engagement programs around, the Clontarf Foundation.

Of course, people working and living in very remote areas are very dependent on renewable energy and we have ensured that the Outback Power program of $10.6 million will in fact be maintained.

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