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

We believe that the focus point of a community should be the school itself. In Indulkana and Mimili, the new Taj Mahal is the school itself. The existing school grounds have now been turfed, and you cannot lean down and casually pick up a missile, as young men and women tend to do at school. These changes have made the most incredible difference not just to attendance at school—the school is something that the people want to go and see. The community want to be in that school and in that place. I would like to take this opportunity to commend those communities for that initiative. I was also there when the entire school—teachers and students—did a walk around the community to talk to anyone at home who had not quite been convinced. The entire school population of some 80 people went down the road to encourage people to make sure their children attended school. (Time expired)